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Korkut Ata (Dede Korkut)
Korkut Ata is a semi-legendary wise figure exalted and sanctified in the ancient epics of the Oghuz Turks. He is known for his deep understanding of the traditions and customs of the steppe life and for preserving the tribal organization. He is also the bard who narrates the stories in the Book of Dede Korkut, the oldest epic of the Turks. In historical sources and various Oghuz legends, he is sometimes referred to simply as "Korkut," sometimes as "Korkut Ata," and in Western Turkic as "Dede Korkut." Folk tales collected from the Syr Darya basin present him as a shaman (baksı), while written sources describe him as a Muslim Turkish saint who served as a vizier and advisor to rulers. In 2018, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan jointly included the Book of Dede Korkut in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. According to folk traditions, Dede Korkut was born from an enlightened, clear-eyed giant woman, but historical sources vary on details about his life. The oldest historical source mentioning Korkut Ata is Jami' al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din, the vizier of the Ilkhanate. This famous work, written in 1305 by Rashid al-Din with a committee, refers to Korkut as a contemporary of four Oghuz rulers. According to this source, Korkut was from the Bayat tribe and the son of Kara Hoca. He lived 295 years. He appeared during the reign of Inal Sir Yavkuy, the ninth ruler of the Oghuz lineage, and served as an advisor to the tenth ruler, Kayı Inal Khan, and to the following three Oghuz rulers.
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Greek Heroes/Mythology.
Odysseus: He was the king of Ithaca. His shrewdness, resourcefulness, and endurance enabled him to capture Troy and endure nine years of wandering and adventures before reaching his home in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, awaited him. Hector: Hector was a prince of Troy renowned for his bravery, military skill, and sense of duty. Son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. His wife was Andromache and they had a son, Scamandrius or Astyanax. He was Trojan hero and warrior, he fought bravely against the Greeks in the Trojan War. Achilles: Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the greatest, bravest and handsomest of all Greek heroes who took part in the Trojan War. Achilles and Patroclus are considered to be lovers or at least, great friends. Prometheus: Prometheus was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene. Even though a Titan himself, together with his brother Epimetheus, he sided with Zeus during the Titanomachy. However, after helping Zeus to achieve victory in the war, he started a quarrel with him over his supposed unfair treatment of humanity. This led to Prometheus stealing the fire from the gods and gifting it to humanity, which resulted in Zeus chaining Prometheus and sending an eagle to prey upon his continually regenerating liver. Orpheus: Orpheus was considered thel best musician and poet of all, and he perfected the lyre. He was married with Eurydice she was tragically killed and Orpheus is left alone. Nothing brings him joy any more, not even playing his music. Determined to get her back, Orpheus travels down the Underworld. He manages to charm all of the defenses of the Underworld with his music. The god of the Underworld himself is so moved by Orpheus’s music that he allows Orpheus to lead Eurydice back to the land of the living as long as he follows one rule: he cannot look back for her until they were both back in the land of the living. He agreed, and began to lead Eurydice away from the Underworld. When Orpheus finally led his wife back to the surface, he was so excited that he turned around to embrace her…only to see that Eurydice had not fully made it out of the Underworld yet. With the rule broken, Eurydice disappeared and was lost forever. Heracles(or Hercules): He was the greatest of all Greek heroes. A half-god of superhuman strength and violent passions, Heracles was the epitome of bravery and masculinity in the ancient world and the most notable champion of the Olympian order, which he staunchly protected from various chthonic monsters and earthly villains.
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