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Islamic Influences on Turkic mythologies

Mythology, as time goes, has derivations of the similar motif, being modified by both social changes and one who introduces it, this phenomenon appears too evidently in mythologies of nomadic peoples like Turkic tribes in Eurasia Mythological motifs, which were transmitted from mouth to mouth through history, produced modified versions, by adding new motifs or eliminating some original one Karakhanids among Turkic tribes for the first time accepted Islam religion in the 10th century and followed by the other Turkic tribes in Central Asia As their life and culture were drastically changed after Islamization since the 10th century, their mythologies and folktales also were much affected by the change Ancient Turkic mythologies contained ancient way of thinking, world view and indigenous and original cultural features of ancient Turkic tribes After Islamization, Islamic elements were added to their mythologies and folktales, while non-Islamic eliminated or sometimes replaced by Islamic motifs However, we can still find not a few original symbols and motifs in contemporary Turkic mytholgies.