Abstract:

Karaca Ahmet Sultan Turbesi is located in Karaca Ahmet Village, Uşak Illi Ulubey District. Turbe, also known as Gözcü Karaca Ahmet, is one of Karaca Ahmet Sultan's official turbines from the Anadolu pires. The sixth planed turbine is covered with an eight-growing cube. On the entrance door of the turbine, a life tree on the two sides of a mirror mode is symmetrically placed with two bird figures processed. In the process from ancient times to today, in many cultures, the bird is a symbolic figure. Sometimes the dead has moved to another world, sometimes accompanied him, or the spirit of the dead has turned into a bird. The spirit has become a bird. The bird figure has been a motivation used by loving in the repertoire of various branches of art, including literature. In this study, the motif of the tower bird in Karaca Ahmet Sultan Turbesi is examined, the place in Turkish culture and iconography is assessed; the motif is focused on the origin and iconographic meaning. Human or animal figures, based on shaman and astrological symbols in the Eurasia animal style, have continued to exist for centuries, and appear to us in different regions of Anatolia. The figures of this tradition are numerous in civil architecture, but they are rarely but meaningfully found in religious architecture. Turbe is also a visiting center where various rituals are held in charge of Karaca Ahmet's healing identity-medicine. The practices of attachment to the grandfather performed in the turbine appear to be based on the pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish beliefs because of the elements he carried. The visit to Turbe and the expected help to have a child shows that this practice and belief is a continuation of the ancestral cult. Similar uses of objects such as handstone, tomruk, tülbent taken through the box, desire stone during the processes are also seen in the pre-Islam Turkish practices. The prayer and prayers read during the practices performed in the Turbine shows that the practices based on traditional Turkish religion and pre-Islamic Turkish beliefs have been given an Islamic character and thus the practices have been continued until today. These liturgical objects in the turbine and the motif of the cattle bird function as both Karaca Ahmet's visual remedies and powerful tools with healing and protective properties. With these characteristics, it also contributes to the spiritual development of the person who visits the turbine at the Western level and also contributes to the desire to contact the holy area. Keywords: Uşak, Turbe, Karaca Ahmet Sultan, Tavus Bird, Bezeme.