The mi̇nstrel Kara Musa; Treasure of oral culture

Culture is all that mankind produced such as materially and spiritually. Oral culture forme with being transferred orally there by performe orally. Oral culture constitutes the base of written culture. Traditional culture is created orally after that it is put down on paper. From this aspect the written culture is shaped then by oral culture is put down on paper. Personages play significant role in oral culture transmission. Minstrels are the first of these specifical men. Minstrels took there final form that changed in historical process. Previously, shaman who was both a poet and a religious leader at Turkish culture; after acceptance of İslam, shaman's religious qualitie was abatingly to shaman-ozan after that it changed just ozan and it was from ozan to dervishes as soon as İslamization of Turks, they got training in dervish lodges and increased effectiveness of dervishess. These dervishes changed to minstrel in time. On of these minstrel Musa Yıldız lives in Acıpınar village of Çorum who is caled " Minstrel Kara Musa". Kara Musa is resource of oral culture. He was a very strong memory and know by heart hundres of poems. Althought he was eighty four years old when we complied many poems were edited with their explanation. Kara Musa knows not only poetry but also the Qur'an and Hurufism. He also explains that religious poems. İn our works are examined that the life and World view of Kara Musa, poems of Fuzuli, Hatayi, Kul Himmet, Nesimi, Pir Sultan, Virani, Yemini from vision of him. İn our works is analyzed and registered poems and epics belong to seven exalted bards into memories of Kara Musa who is word perfect. KEY WORDS: Oral Culture, Minstrelness, Kara Musa, Alevism, Seven Exalted Bards