Author/Authors :
KARAKAŞ, Selim Giresun Üniversitesi - Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi - Tarih Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
The Matter of Turks’ Original Religions
Abstract :
Traditional Turkish religious life has developed by having interwined with social, political, economic and environmental conditions in archaic periods of Turks. All of these elements has influenced and shaped each other. It would not be true to evaluate original religions of Turks within one of the systems that put forwarded by theorists in religion because old Turkish belief has appeared as heroic ancestors’ cult and nature beliefs and reached high level by means of Tengri that is concept of supreme being. However it was, in time, exposed to influence of different mystic-magic systems (especially Shamanism) and other religions.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Tengri , Earth , Water Belief , Heroic Ancestors’ Cult , Shamanism
JournalTitle :
Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences
