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Post by balamir on Dec 15, 2006 22:02:01 GMT 3
Can anyone tell me about this Legend? What is it about? And is it a true story? I hear Alexander the Great is in the Legend.
Is it really belonging to Sakha Turks?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 16, 2006 0:21:45 GMT 3
It is about a war between Alexander the Great of Makedon and Shu, the ruler of Yedisu (Semirechie) Turks. It was written down in the 11th century AD. It probably bears the remnants of the news of Alexandros III's war with the Saka of Central Asia, but it seems that even if it was originially non-Turkic, the Turks borrowed and Turkified the legend in time. It does not belong to the Sakha Turks living in Siberia  |
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Post by balamir on Dec 19, 2006 12:10:46 GMT 3
Did we win? =)
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Dec 19, 2006 21:14:54 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Nov 24, 2007 17:23:59 GMT 3
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Post by Atabeg on Nov 25, 2007 1:18:33 GMT 3
i didn't realy understand what the plot was  |
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Post by Temüjin on Nov 25, 2007 22:34:27 GMT 3
me neither, it looked like Celts vs medieval Turks, very confusing...  |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Nov 27, 2007 1:04:21 GMT 3
Well they were depicting just one part of the legend. The first characters are symbolic, and as far as I remember, their names are not mentioned in the legend itself. The later part is, however, found in the legend, where Alexandros' scouts (of course with bigger numbers) engage with the Saka scouts; while one of the Saka scout kills a Macedonian soldier, he also slices the Macedonian's belt with his sword and the gold in a pocket, covered in blood, is spread to the ground, thus naming a nearby mountain as Altunqan (Golden Blood). The legend actually goes around the khan's palace, not a chieftain's tent  |
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