Özet:

The tree is the element that is accepted as holy in many cultures from religious/first sources till today. In Turks, some meanings such as abundance, fertility, posterity, sexuality, aliveness, healing were attributed to trees and various applications were carried out around some specific trees. Being equivalent of life tree which has no certain beginning and end with the ‘mythical mother’ phenomenon is related to the existence a hero in creation myths and tree feeding him. Human being came into the world from sacred area through the life tree and the tree fed and raised him. Because of this, in the background of the practises carried out as part of the tree cult, there is an effort to connect with deific area in the mythic memory of societies rather than the tree itself. Based on the cult of tree, a symbolic relation between women and pear tree has been built in the folk beliefs and narrations existing in our intellectual memory today. Evolutions of human beings into stones, trees, plants or animals in legends are common motifs. A great number of heros turning into trees exist in legends, and those trees come into different shapes. The transformation of women into pear tree in legends can be seen an ordinary evolution of an object. However, the fact that the women wishing to have baby girl throw stones at pear trees in magical folk beliefs has made up for this ordinariness and led to the thinking that there may be a symbolic relationship between women and pear tree in our cultural background.

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