MUĞLA YERKESİK YÖRESİNDE DOĞUMLA İLGİLİ İNANÇ VE UYGULAMALARI

Abstract

There are some basic stages in human life. These phases move a person from one phase to another, and partly change a person's life. As we all know, these stages start with birth, marriage ete. continues with and ends with death. These phases are called "transitionalperiods". Here, we will consider the "birth" phase, which is the first of these transitional periods in the Yerkesik region of Muğla. Man, in these new phases he has gone through, makes some practices in order to relax himself spiritually. Believing in something, or rather the need to believe, has always existed in human nature and will always exist. As a result of this, our customs, traditions and customs, which are applied from ancestor to grandchild, have been formed. Infact, almost all applications performed today; it is a trace from our ancestors, grandmothers, ancient Turks. Some of them continue in the some way and some of them have undergone some changes under the influence of today's conditions and have become a new practice. We are the carriers of culture that continues this trace. Birth related practices start with the baby falling into the mother's womb and even before conception. The purpose of these applications, which start from before birth and continue until after birth; the healthy survival of women and children, protection from evil spirits and maintaining this healthy life for a lifetime.