The Mythological Connections of The Four Sacred Elements and Four Directions in The Old Turkish Belief System: The Miracle Motives in Velâyetnames Four-Doors Forty Stations

In the ancient Turks, the concept of the sacred four elements and four directions was reflected in the belief structure as well as it gained a mythological character. It is understood that the manifestation of the sacred, which developed in the belief system of the Turks, was intertwined with supernatural motifs, and the cosmic situation and the phenomenon of creation developed in the process of mythical construction in the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. It is necessary to evaluate the connections of the works in the genre of mythology, legend, epic and fairy tale, which are tried to be put forward in Turkish culture, with works such as Velayetname, Menak & imath;b-name, as a whole of the elements of symbolized value judgments that contain various knowledge, thought, behavior patterns and traditional texture. Human beings have an immature raw personality from birth. Therefore, each individual is shaped according to the traditions and customs of the society. There are principles in which humans go through various stages in the process of becoming a Perfect Human Being and gradually shaping or maturation. In the mature human type, the symbolism of the four basic elements of nature, air, water, earth and fire, is in a state where it educates and guides a person to the Secret Truth through four doors and forty stations. These states appear in the symbolism of the door of shariah (Divine Law)-air, the door of tariqah (Sufi Path)-fire, the door of ma'rifah (Divine Knowledge)-water and the door of haqiqah (Truth)-earth and gain meaning. The universe of shapes can give the forms of the apparent material realm. However, the forms that exist in the universe contain deep meanings beyond the form that exists in appearance. In other words, the realm of meaning is surrounded by unknown latent codes. Therefore, such a universe fiction will be understood by being able to analyze the symbolic language or expression that is familiar with the realm of meaning. Within the framework of our research title, the analysis of the miracle motifs that took place in the "menkabes" (the Sufi epics) or "velayetnames" in the Islamic period, in which the religious and mystical cultural texture began to take shape together with the old belief system in the Turks before Islam, in the context of mythological elements and motifs, will be endeavored to be reflected in a sociological as well as historical perspective.

Dergi

ART AND INTERPRETATION

Yıl

2024

Cilt

44

Sayfa

68-78

eISSN

2822-2865

DOI

10.47571/sanatyorum.1509587

WoS UID

WOS:001337450200003