Text and motif analysis on the Parable of Cemşid from Kazakh epics

Epics give various information about a society's life, value judgments and cultural accumulations. Therefore, thanks to epics, research can be done in many cultural areas of that society. At the center of Turkish epic studies are heroes such as Oğuz Kağan, Dede Korkut and Köroğlu. Studies on epics and the transmission of epics in Turkey started in the 2000s and have increased in recent years. In this study, the Cemşid Parable of the Kazakh Turks, which is in the epic tradition of the Turkish world, has been examined as the transfer of structure, content, motif and text to Turkey Turkish. Although these texts, which are handled in the context of the epic epic type in Kazakh Turkish, are called tales, these texts are epic products in terms of form and content. The study consists of four parts, in the first part, the term epic, epic narrators, epic tradition are emphasized. The second part is the part where the form and content analysis is made. In the third chapter, the motifs of the epic were found and analyzed, episode analysis and episode summary were given. In the fourth chapter, information about the Cemşid Parable from the book named Babalar Sözü is given and the epic text consisting of 5126 lines in total has been transferred from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet, and from the Latin alphabet to Turkey Turkish. Keywords: Cemşid Epics, Epic, The Narrative Epic, Kazakh Epics.