My Pets

    A horse is one of the first domesticated animal by human. A horse was domesticated in B.S. 4000 by Turkmen people. (This fact adopted from Morgan Child's book). At first a horse was used for hunting, because these horses were very fast and for hunting a deer they need it. They also used a horse in wars with their neighbors. 

    Nowadays, in Turkmen literature and culture the horse takes a large place. For example, you can find a plenty of poems about horses. There is some belief that says "a horse was an angel in the sky and one day when it was on the earth Turkmen people caught it and domesticated. In order to subdue it, they cut it's wings and since that day the horse is in the earth. Every time, when a horse runs it wants to fly to the sky, but it couldn't, because it hasn't wings any more and that's why Turkmen horses are the fastest in the world."  Turkmen's respect a horse and call it as an animal of honor. Beating an animal or call it as an animal are very abnormal behaviors in Turkmenistan. Turkmen people except a horse as a religious animal, when our neighbor countries like Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan eat this animal.