JAWZA AS AN ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CONFUSION IN CLASSICAL POETRY: GEMINI OR ORION? Cover Image

KLASİK ŞİİRDE ASTRONOMİK VE ASTROLOJİK BİR KAVRAM KARMAŞASI: CEVZÂ, İKİZLER Mİ AVCI MI?
JAWZA AS AN ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CONFUSION IN CLASSICAL POETRY: GEMINI OR ORION?

Author(s): Hasan Ali GÜNEŞ
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Jawza; Twins; The Hunter; Gemini; Orion;

Summary/Abstract: Classical poets added many subjects to their poems as a seasoning. Besides other sciences, poets have also blended many facts about astrology and astronomy, known as astronomy, astrology with literature and included them in their works with various arts. Gemini, also known as Jawza, is one of these phenomena. Gemini, which is a constellation on the zodiac in the north of celestial equator. The Orion is located in the middle of the constellations Taurus and Gemini. In the scans made, it was seen that some poets used the word Jawza for both Gemini and the Orion constellation, and many researchers interpreted this word as Gemini only. In this study, by giving astronomical, mythological and astrological information about Gemini and Orion constellations, it will be tried to explain how these constellations are handled in poems, the causes and solution of the conceptual confusion about Jawza.

  • Issue Year: 12/2024
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 229-246
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish
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