Abstract
THE ROLE OF SACRED THINGS IN ACCEPTANCE OF PRAYER AND WISHES IN BY GOD
Prayer has been the main means of communicating with God since the earliest periods of human history. In the prayer beliefs and actions of Turkish folk belief, some religious motifs have a unique mythological structure. With the premise that mythological thoughts and actions are reflected in beliefs and actions in daily life from past to present, a sociological and anthropological reading method, which is one of the mythological analysis methods related to the mythological origin of thoughts and actions in the prayer tradition, was determined. The religious idea that prayers will be accepted through sacred beings such as stones, rocks, mountains, trees and water, which developed around the ancestral faith and are believed to be sacred, is still alive as a widespread folk belief in Turkey. In this context, the tree, the mountain, the fire symbolizes verticality and its height, with its water cleanliness and clarity, with its representation of vitality and eternity, with its stone or rock symbolizing hardness and solidity, it has been the places where the sacred beings hold space and communication with God by carrying the box of God on it.
Keywords
Prayer, holy, mythology, God, folk beliefs
