Özet:

While in literary texts, animal motifs are included as a reflection of the natural environment and economic activities, they have also been used as a concrete indicator in reflecting the abstract, by gaining various symbolic meanings. So, when the animal motifs in a particular text are analyzed, while, on the one hand, the natural surrounding of the people that have created those works, their process of creating material culture and their economy can be followed, on the other hand, it is also possible to solve the unconcrete cultural codes which are hidden in the symbolic meanings that these animals have gained. In this article, the meanings of the animals mentioned in the texts of folk songs have been emphasized and their usages, both as real and symbolic, have been tried to be determined. In the survey, the songs in TRT folk music repartoire, which belong to the districts of Erzurum, Erzincan, Sivas, Gaziantep, Kilis, Yozgat, Ağrı and Van, have been assessed. In the analyzed texts, most of which are the examples of folk literature, it has been found that animal motifs have been used substantially in creating the meaning world of folk songs.

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