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This article deals with religious cults and rituals that include the elements of the traditional Turkish religion that moved from Turkistan to Anadolu. The majority of Muslims, Alevi and Sunni Turks and Turkmen, haveined an important part of their pre-Islamic ancient beliefs under the Islamic shelter. The most well-known of these beliefs are the ancestors' cult, the land-water cult and the sacrifice cult. In this study, the Cem rituals, one of the most important religious rituals of the Anadolu Alevilis, were studied from a traditional Turkish religious perspective. When the religious rituals and phenomena that are specific to the Cem ceremony were carefully studied, there were significant similarities between these and some pre-Islamic beliefs. For example, the presence of a spiritual Grandma who runs the Cem ceremony, the attribution of a high status to the Grandma, the presence of a language of worship, the participation of women in worship, the presence of an ozon during the religious function and worship attributed to connection, and the demonstration of the Semah are some of these similarities. When such similarities were assessed, it was first referred to the prototypic beliefs that existed in the pre-Islam beliefs of the Turks, then their reflections or traces were explained to the Cem rituals.

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