In this article the popular folk narrative, «Bay Büre Beg Oglı Bamsı Beyrek Boyı» in the Dede Korkut Book, is analyzed within the context of heroic adventure. The actions of the hero is considered with the universal formula ...

With extraordinary qualities, epic heroes are of ideal types of societies. For this reason they have psychologically and physically more different characteristics than ordinary people have. Extraordinary qualities attributed ...

The phenomenon of death occupies very large place in Turkish culture. In daily life it is an important issue, both in the pre-Islamic period and Islamic modern times. This article investigates religious and cultural aspects ...

To locate workings of identity in the duma texts, this paper will focus on the images of the «other». The working hypothesis is that these epics, by content, reflect the historical events of the era, that is the Cossacks' ...