| Popis: |
Numbers, carry various meaning and secrets in the living cultural values of the world. Numbers, one of the original building blocks of Turkish culture, and sacred meanings attributed to tthem, had significant contributions to our literature. It is observed that, belief, in our oral and written sources, comprised of civilizations and cultures; three, four, seven, nine, twelve and forty amongst all others had mysterious meanings ascribed to them the most. As the nation of Turks, throughout the lands that we live, ten is one of the numbers that is being shaped in accordance with belief systems cosisting different themes and archetypes. The mystery of the number ten, which is founded on the traditions and cultural values, lays on the old beliefs and Islam, has been the precursor of many motives and concepts in the Turkish geography. Ten commandments, ten sephiroths, Hinduism’s ten teachings, ten day fasting are some of these archetypes in old beliefs. Ten Uygur Clans, Ten Arrow Sons, Ten Pavillions, the arrangements of the military structure in order of tens, Genghis Khans Ten Laws, are some of the concepts of the use of ten. The knowledge of Aşere-i mübeşşere, feeding ten needy, ten nights, ten unseen saints, ten days of fasting, the promise of ten times the reward for kindness, are some of the references to the number ten in Islam. One of the building blocks of the belief methodology of Ahmet Yesevî is the number ten. In this study, in order to understand the concepts such as ten roads, ten lights, ten maqams, and specially systematized by the name of four doors and fourty maqams found in Ahmet Yesevî’s works, and the belief structure the areas of use for the number ten in Turkish Culture will be examined, and the existence, past, and mystery of the number ten in Ahmet Yesevî’s methodology will be evaluated. |
