MİTİK ANLATILARDAN MASAL VE DESTANLARA KÖPRÜ SEMBOLİZMİ
BRIDGE SYMBOLISM FROM MYTHICAL NARRATIVES TO FAIRY TALES AND EPICS

Summary/Abstract: The word bridge is a symbol that contains many implicit meanings outside of the dictionary meaning. Searching for her symbolic past in the cultural sphere is like an excavation. For this, it is necessary to examine how the bridge is made meaningful in mythologies, beliefs and holy books. While bridges made of the rainbow as a symbol of contract form the bond between the earth and the sky, there are bridges that are seen as the threshold of the other world and can be dangerous or easy to cross for the person passing by. However, in almost all of them, the symbolic value of the bridge is interpreted as "transition from one stage to another". In addition to the interpretation of the symbol in this way, it also takes place as a coded meaning in the collective unconscious and appears in different ways in different places in human life. In this study, in order to examine bridge symbolism, how the bridge is made meaningful in mythologies and other religious beliefs and which mythical stories are explained will be evaluated. In addition to this, the projections of the bridge symbol in literature will not be ignored, it will be investigated in what forms and interpretations it corresponds in literature as well as its existence in belief systems. The aim of the study is to identify the semantic framework in which the "bridge" is symbolically contained.

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