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- Title
İSKİTLERİN VE HUNLARIN (HSİUNG-NU) DİNİNDE KUTSAL KILIÇ KÜLTÜ.
- Authors
HASANOV, Zaur
- Abstract
Comparing information of Chinese, Greek and Latin written sources about Scythians, Hsiung-nu and Huns author shows an identity of the god of warfare cult in their religions. In the religions of all of these ancient people god of warfare was associated with the sword of heavenly origin. In Chinese written sources, the heavenly sword (double-sided blade) is called "Ching Lu", which according to the views of researchers is identical to the Turkic "kingrak" and Mongolian "kingara". Greeks called this type of Scythian weapon "akinakes". Scythians and Huns had similar myths about the sword of god of warfare (Ares/Mars). Scythians and Huns believed that possession of this sword them royal rights. Scythians and Hsiung-nu sacrificed horses and imprisoned slaves to the heavenly sword. Besides this, Scythians and Hsiung-nu had identical practice of blood oath with the use of this sword. In the later periods of history a number of Turkic people continued this tradition. A number of additional historical and linguistic facts, testifying to the identity of heavenly sword cult in the cultures of Scythians and Turkic people are brought forward in the article.
- Subjects
INDO-European mythology; COMPARATIVE civilization; RELIGION; WAR; SCYTHIANS; HUNS; XIONGNU (Asian people); SWORDS in mythology; INDO-European etymology; INDO-European gods; ARES (Greek deity); MARS (Roman deity); TURKIC peoples
- Publication
Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları, 2009, Issue 181, p171
- ISSN
0255-0644
- Publication type
Article