This article shows that the artistic structure of the work in modern Uzbek novels is built on the basis of an ancient myth (for example, the ancient myth about the "tree of life" in the novel "Chinar" by Asqad Mukhtar), the mythological plot serves as a criterion for describing the mental state of the hero (for example, in the novel "Mahmud Torabi" by Asad Dilmurod The myth of Ulgan and Erlik), the construction of the interpretation of time and space on the basis of a mythopoetic model (for example, the novels of Amon Mukhtar), the absorption of the essence of the mythological image into the character of the hero (for example, the novel "Shokh" by Shoyim Botaev) is about the meeting of different types of mythology. Images related to mythopoetic thinking in modern Uzbek novels include the introduction of the ethnopoetic context related to archaic ceremonies, paintings and rituals that express the ancient mythological beliefs of our ancestors, stylization of myth plots and motives, images related to totemistic, animistic and magical beliefs and It consists in researching such forms as the poetic transformation of symbols and ethnic mythology, that is, the use of myth plots and mythologemes related to the poetic thinking of other peoples and peoples.
