If we take social conditions of history as basis, horse’s being tamed and
used as a saddle beast is equal with the use of motor vehicles in our age. Because,
in our age, if the ones who owns motor vehicles can direct the history, who
owned horses had the same power in ancient times.
Ural-Altaic tribes had two important roles for world history. First one of
these was “horse breeding” and the second was their ability to “their forging
tecniques”. Based upon these we can see that horses have an extensive coverage
in Turkish culture. The word ‘horse’ is expressed as “at”, “yılkı” on Orkhon
and Yenisei Inscription and it is expressed as “at”, “yılkı/cılkı/çılgı” in today’s
Turkish dialects. Even, horse is the name of a year on the twelve animal Turkish
calendar. It is known that Huns bred horses their economy was considerably
based on horses and moreover a great amount of the gifts that they sent to China
was horses. Turks used horses in their ancestor sports like javelin besides their
legends, folk songs, stone paintings, cairns, person and place names.
Although mounted javelin has come from those days to now, it could not
spread at intended level in Turkey. But today it can be known and improved
with different activties at schools such as organizing tours to the farms that have
javelin horses or playing unmounted javelin.
Journal Section | MAKALELER |
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Publication Date | November 30, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Issue: 2 |