From dying and return to life in initiation of Shaman to the dying and return to life in Turkish epics

Abstract

The first condition of the ways to becoming a Shaman is the rite of fade and revival which is actually to provide, by a symbolic meaning, for a candidate of Shaman to be faded an revived then started a new life with a new identification and to be worked. In the later periods, the rite of fade and revival during to becoming a Shaman was being kept in the episc, culture ot the pots then had been kept the old duties with smoothly. The revival of the dead hero, can seen in Turkish epics and the folk tales, was usually tried to explain by the behaves of reincarnation for reasons of the fade-revival of nature and the revival of the killed hero for the revenge. In this article, we are clarified the relationship between the revival of a killed hero as depicted in epics and the rite of fade-revival during to becoming a Shaman.