@article{2013,title={TRADITIONS APPLIED IN FUNERAL AND BURIAL PROEDURES IN PRE ISLAM TURKS AND THE AIMS THESE TRADITIONS},abstractNode={In our study we tried to understand and indicate the traditions that are applied during the funeral and burial ceremonies and the reasons underlying them in Pre-Islam Turkish culture history. The Turks believed in eternity of soul from the most archaic periods. There was the belief that the dead people would start a second life and there lead a life similar to the life here. As a result of this faith, the dead people were buried with valuable or necessary materials that are needed in daily life. First, the bodies of the dead people were kept in their own tents; the first rituals were performed around the tents and also the cairns where they were buried compared with the tents. The Turks became very sorry for the death of their beloved people and performed some applications such as shaving the hair, injuring their faces with a knife, and weeping loudly as an indication of mourning and lament. During the funeral and burial ceremonies riding horses and running around the funeral tent or the cemetery contained some cosmic meanings. The Turks thought that the life was impossible without a horse in their second lives. The Turks travelling to the heaven passed beyond the other dead people and reached the heaven more easily thanks to the horses sacrificed for themselves. The idea of alleviating the souls of dying people and benefiting from the moral powers of mighty persons is one of the reasons in applying killed vaccine tradition. The Turks as a warrior nation believed that the enemies they killed in their lives would serve them in the other world. Due to this belief, balbals (stone statues) representing the enemies killed by them were erected around the cemeteries of dying people. },author={İbrahim ONAY},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}