Türk Mitolojisinde Eskatoloji Mitleri
Eschatology Myths in Turkic Mythology

Summary/Abstract: Myths which are sacred or admitted as sacred for humans arise from the needs of people. The end of the universe, World and humans is as important part of the myths as the creation of these. Eschatology Myths are also interwined with the holy one so the myths related to the end of the World are also sacred for the people like the myths about the creation of the World. The most common narratives of this case is Eschatology Myths. The warnings related to the regeneration of the World show themselves clearly in the Cataclysm Myths. For this reason the relationship between Eschatology Myths and Cataclysm Myths make itself felt strongly. Traditional societies create a World for themselves under the guidance of the holy one. The World they established continue to exist under the rules laid down by the holy one. The people living on this World develops these rules by their beliefs, thinking and applications. First of all they put these rules into their lives as oral environment, and then as a writings at a later period. Communities broke those rules will get their punishment by the creator in moral and social fields meaning on this World. In this article how Turks reflected their imagination of the end of the World in their myths, subjects of the eschatology myths, the place of the Turk Eschatology Myths in Mythology and the examples taken from the Turk Cataclysm Myths depending the Turk Eschatology Myths are given and studied.

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