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Stock Code
1QJ65S77ZT
ISBN
9786257799171
Yazar
Ahmet Unal
Basım Tarihi
2020
Sayfa Sayısı
403
NEW PRODUCTS
20,45 EUR
Myths are the unique living history created by the collective human memory for thousands of years. The statement that a world without myths is an unhappy world cannot be a dry dialectic; on the contrary, it points to the cultural poverty of nations without myths, and the spiritual poverty and inevitable disastrous consequences of individuals who do not read myths. Although this is all it would be, mythlessness makes nations and individuals lose much more. Nations without myths sit on makeshift ground, their property seems to have no title deed. It is again myths that make nations nations, gain new lands, create new nations and states, and constantly feed them. It is also seen that myths lie behind wars and global and cultural polarizations. The creator of the civilization that will change the fate of the world and carry humanity to the space age is the libertine Zeus himself, who gave birth to Europe, who carried the seductive girl "Europe" on his back to Crete in the form of a bull. As a unique source of knowledge and inspiration, it is none other than myths that flatter human fantasy and pleasure from literature to art, and that pave the way for unique discoveries and immortal works in every field of science. Myths cannot be created by force, as in epics, they are formed spontaneously on the shoulders of many tragic events and formations. Ancient Anatolia itself, in addition to being rich in myths that can be considered moderate, used the advantages of being on the threshold of the Sumerian-Babylonian civilization. When the people living here added the valuable works they received from there to their own repertoire or adapted them according to their own tastes and needs, new works and myths that will be distinguished in world literature were born. This book is a part of my extensive research on Hittite, Ancient Anatolia and its common world, Northern Syria myths, taking the texts written in cuneiform as a starting point. It introduces and analyzes all the myths that have reached us and tell the events of people and societies that died thousands of years ago, their struggles and most importantly their "collective desires" in a lively language that knows no censorship. It examines their origins as well as their effects on later periods. Since it compiles, gathers and presents the subjects completely, it is a candidate to be a handbook and to be used as a main source in this form. As much as the myths themselves, how they were subjected to the wrath of monotheistic religions that are enemies of pagan culture, except for the Torah, is also a part of mythographic research. It is painful to read, it angers both the sane writer and the reader, but it is still given a wide space in the book. The second book I wrote, based on the most remarkable parts of the myths that I have narrated here as raw material, especially the Ullikummi epic, is a completely mythological novel and is very different from both what I have written so far and the one here in every respect. It is the first of its kind. It will be read as a unique and breathtaking novel, it will take you to the most remote corners of Anatolia and the Near East from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, it will introduce you to unlikely gods, humans, jinns, devils, angels and different geographies, and it will leave deep impressions in the minds that will not be forgotten for many years. Ahmet Ünal is the former head of the Department of Ancient Anatolian Languages and Hittitology at the University of Munich, an expert on ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian cultures and dead languages, especially Hittite, a historian, an archaeologist and has participated in numerous excavations. Thanks to his multifaceted research and countless study trips, he knows Anatolia very well with its modern and ancient history, cultures, peoples and geography. He is the author of numerous important studies, books and articles on cuneiform texts printed in many languages, dictionaries, grammar, history, archaeology, excavation reports, historical geography, topography, philology, relations between language and archaeological data, history of religion, fortune telling, witchcraft, literature, mythology, lexicographic studies, art, the position of women, Queen Puduhepa, cuisine, music, dance, entertainment, horse training, Orientalism and cultural exploitation. Many of his works, such as history, grammar and dictionaries, are handbooks.
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