Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
MILLI FOLKLOR, cilt.2018, sa.119, ss.48-59, 2018 (AHCI)
Nouns are words that used as separate from similar entities and make them specialize. The action of distinction and privatization lies beneath the desire of classification. The world has become even more livable for mankind, which has classified and named the entities around it. At first, the act of naming which we thought to have emerged with the desire to classify the entities turned into a cultural element over time, and various beliefs and rituals developed around this element. These beliefs and rituals have also been renewed in line with the historical processes of societies. This study includes determinations about the relation between naming beliefs and traditions and ancestral aspirations, which is an element of mythic imagination, generally in the context of the world, in particular in the context of the Turkish people. The "Ancestor Cult" is a belief system of the Turkish people, and referred to by names such as "Sky God Religion, Kamlik Religion and Shamanism" in the literature. People who were afraid of the souls of their ancestors who had died in ancient times developed respect for these spirits based on fear and desperation and developed ways of satisfying them. The beliefs of the Turks against their ancestral spirits seem to have disappeared at the end of the last hundred years. However, the fact that the names of dead ancestors are given to the newborn members of the family reveals the opposite situation. Though the names of dead ancestors today are given to the newborn members of the family, they are considered to be based entirely on respect, but the cultural background of this situation lies in the history of fear-based respect in ancient times. Today's Turks are trying to keep their ancestors' souls alive, just like their ancestors, while adding the names of their dead ancestors to the sacrifices they had presented before them. In this context, the psychological, folkloric, sociological, mythological and theological aspects of the name formation will be examined before the study of the name formation, and then the naming and naming traditions will be evaluated in the context of mythical beliefs (shamanism, ancestral spirit etc). After these reviews and evaluations, analysis of the examinations and determinations made from the previous studies will be carried out.