BELLEK MEKÂNI ADLANDIRMASI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME: [ERGENE KON] = [ERKİN KÜN] EFSANESİ
AN ANALYSIS ON MEMORY SPACE NAMING: THE LEGEND OF [ERGENE KON] = [ERKİN KÜN]

Summary/Abstract: The Ergenekon Legend is one of the legendary texts about the rebirth of the Turks. The place where a community who had been displaced from their homeland found a sheltered place and rebirth, was named Ergenekon. Since the progeny that birth in Ergenekon could not fit into the space, the events that took place during the exit from this place were preserved in the cultural memory and transferred to the next generations. By the next generations, the place called Ergenekon has become a festivity in which the descent inside is remembered and the exit from this place is celebrated. In this study, the functions of the legend text in terms of the community were emphasized, based on Dursun Yıldırım's article named "[Ergene Kon] = [Erkin Kün] mü?". With the reading suggestion in the form of [Erkin Kün], the functions of the memory at the point of identity/belonging are explained by making use of the figures of remembrance, commemorating the dead in the context of the ancestors cave, naming the place, celebrating it as a 'liberation day festivity’ in terms of time, and repetition in the dimension of ceremonies. In this context, it has been seen that the naming of the place in the legend text also emphasizes the content of the events taking place in the space. It has been concluded that the text of the legend with the reading suggestion has the characteristics of 'multifunctional and multi-context'.

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