Turkic creation myth
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The Turkic creation myth, known as the creation of Kao-che in Chinese sources (Chinese: 高車 / 高车, Pinyin: Gāochē, Wade-Giles: Kao-ch'e), is an ancient story about the creation of the Turks told among various Turkic peoples.[1][2]
The tale is told in Chinese in the Wei Shu.[3] and the History of the Northern Dynasties[4]
The Turkish version was recorded in the 19th century[5]
The story
One of the greatest khans of the Huns had two sublimely beautiful daughters. Their beauty was such that people believed these two girls could only ever marry the emperors or gods of the realm, and exclaimed that these girls were not created for humans. The khan was in agreement, so he looked for ways to keep his daughters away from people. He built a very high tower in the northernmost tip of his country, an uninhabited wasteland, and had them both locked up in it. He subsequently began to beg his god to show himself. His ceaseless begging got to a point that finally one day, the god was able to stand it no more. He shape-shifted into a gray wolf and came down from the heavens. He married the sisters, who bore many children from this marriage: 9 Oghuz Turks and 10 Uyghurs. These children resembled their father and carried his wolven spirit, and they, too, roamed the earth and multiplied. Thus were the Turks created.[6]
Notes
- ^ 1890-1966., Köprülü, Mehmet Fuat (2009). Türk edebiyatı tarihi [Turkish literature history] (in Turkish). Akçağ Yayınları. pp. 69–73. ISBN 978-975-338-468-1. OCLC 984456710.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Cemal., Anadol (2006). Türkler : tarihe hükmeden millet [Turks: the nation that dominates history] (in Turkish). Bilge Karınca. pp. 77–101. ISBN 975-8715-64-X. OCLC 433010806.
- ^ Wei Shu, Volume 103
- ^ History of the Northern Dynasties, Volume 98
- ^ "Turkish Creation Myth". Larry Avis Brown. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ Cemal., Anadol (2006). Türkler : tarihe hükmeden millet [Turks: the nation that dominates history] (in Turkish). Bilge Karınca. p. 101. ISBN 975-8715-64-X. OCLC 433010806.