Trails of old beliefs of Turkish in products folklore of Burdur end its environs

IV ABSTRACT THETRAÎLS OF THE OLD TURKISH BELIEFS IN THE PRODUCTS OF BURDUR END İTS ENVIRONS Fuat Naci Köse The Branch Of Turkish Language Mainscience The Institute of Social Sciences in Afyon Kocatepc University Eylül 2001 Consultant: Asistant Professor Dr. Hayrettin RAYMAN It's known that Turkish societies have adopted various belief systems from past to now because of some historical, geographical, political and sociological reason. The new belief system tried to make a room for itself by forbidding the previous one partly or completely. But, the previous belief always succeeded in keeping its importance in a way in Turkish culture and lasted its existence in Turkish social life up to now. In that study, it was striven to give information about the marks of traditions, customs, morals and habits that have a great importance in various phases of human life; and the old Turkish beliefs that have been sustained till today with some beliefs and practices such as birth, marriage, death which are thought as the three important transitional periods of human life, in Burdur.In the enter part, while the geographical and cultural structure and the history of the locality were being introduced involving the prehistorically period, the relations of the local culture to geography and history were emphasized. In the first part, the functions of some old Turkish belief types called Tengri, İyeler, Kişioğlu and Kam are told here connected with religion and folklore which have also a great importance in bringing societies together and making them a nation as well as the other factors. In the second part, the Turkish beliefs that directed the transitional ceremonies such as birth, naming, marriage, military service and death that have effects on human life were fixed and exemplified. And besides, the ceremonies and practices (victim, rain prayer, hunting... ect.) resulted from the old Turkish religions and that have affected the local people were introduced. In the thi part, the beliefs and practices concerning good luck and bad luck, dream, colour, the evil eye, folk calendar, and public medicine were examined under the title of "The other beliefs and traditions." After that work we made about the beliefs in Burdur, as a result it is possible to say that there is a totality between Turkish social life and religious life from past to now, and also it's possible to say that the Turkish tribes coming from the middle Asia to Anatolia are still keeping alive the old Turkish beliefs and practices by caring them with them.