%0 Journal Article
%T THREE HEROINS IN LINE WITH ¡°EXISTENCE, CHALLANGES, ENDING¡±: AK £¿£¿BEK ARI£¿, ALTIN ARI£¿, AY HUUCIN
%A Aynur KO£¿AK
%A Selma £¿OLAK
%J -
%D 2018
%X Epics are the folkloric genres in which heroes give efforts to restore the order, in other words the transmission from chaos to cosmos. Many problems and reasons, like hero¡¯s people and land in danger or personal curiosity and desire or to find a wife, can push him to start journey. The hero who has to create cosmos again, passes trials and challenges. At the end we see the hero as a ruler who has already been awarded by authority and marriage. The epics Ak £¿ibek Ar£¿£¿, Alt£¿n Ar£¿£¿, Ay Huuc£¿n belonging to Khakas cultural circle have female heroins. Similar to hero¡¯s journey, they are also chasing for the order. However, while they are trying to create cosmos, there are always secondary heroes with them. The order what we talk about is actually the order of these male heroes, not heroins. The heroins come into existence in crisis and protect secondary male characters and their people and even their families. With these features, the heroins and Umay, the holy mother figure who takes care of family, offspring and children in Turkic belief system, should be considered together. Thus, when all missions are completed and the order is established, there is no spot for heroins in this cosmos scene as a ruler or being awarded with power and marriage. Although the number of epics with heroins is limited, we should not let them melt away among common hero¡¯s patterns and general understandings about who hero is. On the contrary, we should be more focused on their births, why or how they fight against their enemies and their endings. Then we can see these heroins offer another hero character which is unique for themselves
%K Tš¹rk inan£¿ sistemi
%K destan gelene£¿i
%K Hakas
%K kad£¿n kahraman
%K Umay
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/mahder/issue/37581/418432