Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKISH STUDIES-LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, cilt.20, ss.953-966, 2025 (TRDizin)
Shor Turks are a Turkish community living in the region called Mountainous Shorya in the
Kemerovo Region (Shorya) of the Russian Federation. Shor Turkish, which is among the dialects that are in
the process of disappearing today, is used by the indigenous people living in the Southern Siberian lands.
Today, this Turkish tribe follows the customs and beliefs of the individual’s new life and this new period in
his life at birth, which is one of the transition periods of human life. The author of the article, Nadezhda
Petrovna Dyrenkova, (31.05.1899-28.10.1941), an expert in the field of ethnography of Turkish noble peoples,
met the Shor Turks during her research trips and learned the words from them to determine what powers they
used and the rituals they performed to keep the newborn baby alive and protect it from the harmful elements
of nature at birth and compiled the text. In the picture of the archaic worldview of the Shor Turks, a large place
is occupied by the malevolent spirits Ainu “Mirror”. It has negative qualities and carries an evil tendency within
it. The Shors view Mirrors as creatures capable of appearing in both zoomorphic (animal or bird) and
anthropomorphic (human) forms. They have developed many methods to detect and neutralize the evil spirit
Mirror. Parents struggle with the Mirror, which constantly tries to get closer to the child, from the birth of their
baby to the upbringing process.