Ankara huseyin gazi tomb in the context of mountain, water, and cave cults;

Abstract

Mountain is believed to keep the earth "stand straight" and conceived as a space of God to carve out the highest point of the earth. They shape traditional practices and social life as a cult in the old Turkish belief system. It contains rushing rivers, the springs and the sources of rivers. Water is the source of the material and spiritual life and it is considered to be sacred. In this regard, it can be said that many sacred narrative formed around the mountains and the water. Mountain and cave are also contemplation places for divine personality. Huseyin Gazi, one of the saints in Anatolia, who is believed to live in Mamak, Ankara, there is a mountain and a tomb by his name and stories associated with his sacred personality. Water metaphor is also noteworthy in a dialectical interaction with both mountain and Huseyin Gazi is blessed in this stories. In this regard, such stories refer naming the places in the context of the sacred mountain and cave metaphores and providing information about the origin of water resources in the context of the metaphor of holy water. In this study, stories that talk about Huseyin Gazi are handled in the context of mountain, water, and cave cults by analyzing printed materials and interviewing people. The issues of evolvement of historical personalities into phenomenon and mythical place names are also studied.Within this faremework in the foregoing verbal data about Huseyin Gazi indicates that his holy personality passes ahead of his historical personality.