ESKİ TÜRK YAZITLARINDA ALIN YAZISI VE BUNUN DİNÎ ANLAMI ÜZERİNE NOTLAR

Abstract

The first known written texts of the Turks were written on monument stones, tombstones, rocks and various objects, and today their number exceeds five hundred. Thousands of studies have been carried out on old Turkic inscriptions since the letters were deciphered by V. Thomsen in 1893. Some of these studies are directly related to grammar. Some of these studies are related to many fields of social sciences. In this article, we focused on the sentences obtained from the Turkic of the inscription period within the framework of destiny writing and the vocabulary that makes up these sentences. After the introductory information, such as what the destiny means to a person, sentences obtained from the inscriptions were included. It was stated that the fact that Turks talked about destiny, especially using figurative words, and expressed their helplessness in the face of destiny, was one of the most important proofs that seventh and eighth century Turkic was a developed literary language. The fact that the data subject to the article was obtained not only from the Khaganate inscriptions but also from the texts written by the begs and the people, it was tried to reach the conclusion that metaphysical issues such as destiny, fate and luck were also known by the people. It was mentioned that another important aspect of the identified sentences is that they can provide important clues about which belief system the Turkish world had in the seventh and eighth centuries.

Keywords

• old turkic inscription
• old turkic
• old turkic religion
• fate
• destiny