Abstract:

The Epic of Manas, which has come so far in the form of great heroic story, is an important epic of Kyrgyz Turks. The epic began to emerge around Yedisu in Turkestan in XI-XII. centuries. In the same centuries, ıt became a great epic in a short time with the Islamism's creation of a great sensation in Turkish community. The Epic of Manas tells the events of a hero named Manas Han, who lived in Kyrgyz region. The epic is the most voluminous epic collected in Turkish tribes. It is possible to see the old Turkish traditions living among Kyrgyz, morals and customs, family life and world view belonging to Kyrgyz in the epic. The epics identified in old times and being orally in the memory of people, reflect the people's opinion, ideal, joy and grief in every period because of living with people. The Epic of Manas, which reflects the memories belonging to the oldest periods of Kyrgyz, is also a living epic and it also included the Islamic elements as a result of becoming firmly established o

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