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The Book of Dede Korkut is one of the most famous epics of the Turkmens or the Oghuz Turks. In 2000, "Kitab-i Dede Qorqud" was awarded the UNESCO literary work of the year as a celebration of its 1300th Anniversary. For all Turkic groupings and Turkic history, see Turkic peoples. ...
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Dede Korkut is a Central Asia dastan(legend), the principal repository of ethnic identity, history, customs and the value systems of its owners and composers. It commemorates struggles for freedom at a time when the Oghuz were a herding people who lived in tents. Dede Korkut has been rendered into a number of languages ever since it caught the attention of H.F. Von Diez, who published a partial German translation of Dede Korkut in 1815, based on a manuscript found in the Royal Library of Dresden. The only other manuscript of Dede Korkut was discovered in 1950 by Ettore Rossi in the Vatican Library. Until Dede Korkut was transcribed on paper, the events depicted therein survived in the oral tradition, at least from the ninth and tenth centuries. The Bamsi Beyrek chapter of Dede Korkut preserves almost verbatim the immensely popular Central Asian dastan Alpamysh, dating from even an earlier time. The stories were written in prose but peppered with poetic passages. The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. ...
The twelve stories that comprise the bulk of the work were written after the Turks converted to Islam, and the heroes are often portrayed as good Muslims while the villains are referred to as infidels, but there are also many references to magic and shamanism, and it is clear that the stories originated in a pre-Islamic past. The character Dede Korkut is a soothsayer and bard and serves to link the stories together, and the thirteenth chapter of the book compiles sayings attributed to him. The tales tell of warriors and battles and are likely grounded in the conflicts between the Oghuz and the Pechenegs and Kipchaks. Many story elements are familiar to those versed in the Western literary tradition. For example, the story of a monster named “Goggle-eye” bears enough resemblance to the encounter with the Cyclops in Homer’s Odyssey that it is believed to have been influenced by the Greek epic. Similarly, the story of Wild Dumrul evokes the Greek myth of Alcestis. An infidel (literally, one without faith) is one who doubts or rejects central tenets of a religion, especially those regarding its deities. ...
A shaman doctor of Kyzyl. ...
Pechenegs or Patzinaks, also known as Besenyők, were a semi-nomadic steppes people of Central Asia that spoke a Turkic language. ...
Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ...
Polyphemus the Cyclops. ...
The Homère Caetani bust at the Louvre, a 2nd century Roman copy of a 2nd century BC Greek original. ...
Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre For other uses, see Odyssey (disambiguation). ...
A princess in Greek mythology, Alcestis (might of the home) was known for her love for her husband. ...
References - Lewis, Geoffrey (Ed.) (1974). The Book of Dede Korkut. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
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