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The 9th-century Irk Bitig ("Book of Divination") from Dunhuang, written in Old Uyghur language with the Orkhon script, is an important literary source for early Turko-Mongol mythology. Turko-Mongol mythology is essentially polytheistic but became more monotheistic during the imperial period among the ruling class, and was centered around the ...
Turkish Siyah Qalam. A depiction of dancing divs (fiends) Az – Demon of Greed (or Lust), mentioned in Turk Manichaen sources. [14] Azāzīl – a being mentioned in some Turkish Sufi texts who was once the executioner of God, but fell from grace when he refused to bow before mankind. Similar to Satan. [15] Cin – Turkish equivalent of the ...
Yunus Emre was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi mystic who influenced Turkish culture. Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries. This strictly oral ...
His interpretation of the myth bolstered its place in the founding mythology of the modern Turkish nation-state. [26] The myth itself was a story about the survival of the Turkic people who, faced with extinction, were able to escape with the help of their totem god, the bozkurt "wolf". [27] The wolf remains a potent symbol of Turkish ...
(Story of Oguzname, Kazan Beg and the Others) [2] Gonbad manuscript: Cild-i Duyyum-i Kitāb-i Türkmän (ä)lsānî (Second Volume of the Book of the Turkmens) [3] Language: Oghuz Turkic: Subject(s) The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turks. Genre(s) Epic poetry: Publication date: c. 14th or ...
Alp Er Tunga or Alp Er Tonğa [1] (Alp "brave, hero, conqueror, warrior", [2] Er "man, male, soldier, Tom", [3] Tonğa "Siberian tiger") is a mythical Turkic hero who was mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Yusuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bilig and in the Vatican manuscript of Oghuznama by an unknown writer.
Asena is the name of a she-wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth. [1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales". [ 2 ] The legend of Asena tells of a young boy who survived a battle; a female wolf finds the injured child and nurses him back to health.
The Turkic creation myth is an ancient story about the creation of the Gaoche (Chinese: 高車 / 高车, Pinyin: Gāochē, Wade-Giles: Kao-ch'e) (aka Tiele people) told among various Turkic peoples. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]