ANADOLU VE BALKAN TÜRKLERİNİN HALK ANLATMALARINDA MİTOLOJİK BİR KUŞ : ZÜMRÜDÜ ANKA

In the mythologies of all nations an extraordinary and a huge bird exist.
Phoneix in Greek, Garuda in Indian, Anka in Arap, Simurg in Persian mythology
are the first ones to coma to mind. In Turkish mythology there is a bird with such
names tuğrul, karakuş, kartal partly similar to and partly different from the ones in
the other nations. We aimed to explain the characteristics of this bird, its place in
tales and how the vents concerned with this bird turned into folk narrations.
In our research we tried to examine the Anatolian and Balkanian folk
narrations and tried to compare with the other nations folk narrations when
necessary. We wanted to point out how Zümrüdü Anka bird transferred to the tales
from mythology using published texts.