The iranian influence into the turkish myths of ancestor founder

The relations between The Iranians and the Turks go back to a very ancient time. Meanwhile a good part of these cultural exchanges deals with mythological and epic purposes, one of the most important fields of these cultural exchanges is the myth of hero founder, according on them the mythic hero of a people is considered as their ancestor who generally has a relationship with a sacred and totemic animal. The writer tries in this article to talk about some myths of the hero founder among the Turks in antiquity and the influences they born from the similar Iranian myths.

Iranians ,

Turks ,

Cultural Exchanges ,

The Myth Of Hero Founder ,

Fereydoon ,

Ughooz Khaghan ,