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The epic is a lengthy work of literature concerning a serious subject containing details
of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. These epics are products
of the culture they were recorded in, so they carry the information about the lives,
culture, belief systems and customs of the nations and people in which they are
produced. The first epics Gilgamesh, Iliad and Odyssey were all produced in a
polytheistic belief system. The composer of Gilgamesh, and Homer produced and
reflected the belief systems of the culture they lived, however these systems can hardly
be called a religion. In the epics of Beowulf and Dede Korkut Stories there are discussion
on whether the texts were written by some clerks and the thoughts and religion inside
the text are censured of altered. In these two epics, traces of Nordic Paganism and
Shamanism as well as the Christian and Islamic elements can be detected. Some epics written in the early 11th and 12th centuries are all based on monotheistic ideals and procedures. These are listed in the genre of chanson de geste such as the Song of Roland and The Poem of the Cid. Following the chronological composing dates there is a clear turn from paganism and polytheism to monotheism. In this paper, the heroes and the ideals of the mentioned epics in terms of the codes they present us about the belief systems of the past generations will be analyzed.
International Congress of Human and Social Sciences Research
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Mustafa CANLI