Comparative Turkish and Greek mythology

Mythology, has become a concept to guide our lives from past to present. It has a very important place in shaping the lives of human beings, especially before divine religions. In this respect, almost every society has narrow or broad mythologies, and they have created the myths that they believe in. These myths by transferring from generation to generation by oral or written came to until the present day. In our entitled study of Comparative Turkish and Greek Mythology, while scanning the source and reading, firstly Greek mythology in general terms, and then Turkish mythology has examined, and finally similarities in both mythologies have discussed and the differences in current have expressed. In this study, 23 gods and 9 goddesses have studied and the gods have compared with the gods and likewise the goddesses have compared with the goddesses. However, 4 gods and goddesses, with similar duties but non-fellow, has studied without gender discrimination. Except for the concepts of God and goddess, by comparing especially one hero, one monster and nature elements such as fire, mountain, iron, water and soil with animals as horses, bears, deer, dogs, wolves, oxen, snakes, the similarities and differences have tried to be examined. The similarities in the mythologies of these two nations, which live in two different geographies and which are also culturally different from each other, have been revealed by way of text-centered analysis. At the end of this study, the similar and different cases in the mythologies of these two nations are evaluated within the framework of a whole and given in the conclusion section.