THE TRACES OF OLD TURKİSH BELİEFS İN KARABAĞ VİLLAGES BOLVADİN COUNTY
BOLVADİN İLÇESİ KARABAĞ KÖYLERİ FOLKLORUNDA ESKİ TÜRK İNANÇLARININ İZLERİ

Author : Erdal ADAY
Number of pages : 217-239

Abstract

Folklore is an important means in building a nation’s future on strong bases. Turkish nation has benn maintaining the national and moral values from the firs written Works until now. The most significant factor that enables this continutiy is the Turkish identity and mind. Even though the environments time and social life have changed, the value judgment and beliefs systems forming this transformation have been pfotecting their existences.Turkish culture has been sustaining its existence in a large geographical area in integrity and hictorical process from past to today. Protecting the genuine values and the continuity of belief system heve played an essential role in creating this synergy. The Turkmenian tribes having to immigrate to the Anatolia from the middle Asia due to ehe various reasons have maintained their life in every part of Anatollia without losing their Turkishness sense.Karabag Turkmen, one of these groups, remain as a great treasure with their life style, languages, produsts and social life. İn this presentation, the traces of old Turkish belief system are being identified in folklore products of Karabag villages, Bolvadin County. Yenikarabağ village connected to Sultandagi Caunty vas included in our study since it came from Karabag district of Azerbaijan and separated from Büyükkarabag village. We can say that the elements belonging to old Turkish religion underlie the products revealed from dailly tife to the important days and celebrations in every stage of life in Karabag vallages. In this study, the beliefs affecting the life style of the people living in Karabag village, Bolvadin County and the practices regarding this were examined and facused on the features of them.

Keywords

Karabag Turkmens, belief, cult

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