Proto-Turkic Mythological Terms: Some Etymological Observations
There is a notion, in popular beliefs as well as in academic works by historians and anthropologists, that Turkic peoples had in their common past a developed religion with an established pantheon, along with cosmogonic and cosmological concepts. This article is an attempt to address this problem fr...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publ.
2018
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Shaman
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 21-40 |
| Summary: | There is a notion, in popular beliefs as well as in academic works by historians and anthropologists, that Turkic peoples had in their common past a developed religion with an established pantheon, along with cosmogonic and cosmological concepts. This article is an attempt to address this problem from an etymological point of view: what common concepts and themes can be reconstructed for the Proto-Turkic language, using the lexical data of Turkic languages and written monuments? |
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| ISSN: | 1216-7827 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Shaman
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