Returning to God in Mount Ida Tahtaci Turkoman mytology

In this study, socio-cultural practices and rituals concerning the phenomena of death, which is important for Çanakkale Mount Ida Tahtaci Turkomans within the scope of the conceptualization of "returning to God", are hermeneutically analyzed. "Ethnicity" and "Qizilbash" pattern integrations, which are the two basic components of Tahtaci Turkoman collective identity, and the "Tahtacilik" (Forestry) which is a traditional occupation, exhibit a syncretic structure concerning the rituals and socio-cultural practices about the death and after World within the Tahtaci-Turcoman cosmology. If we are to consider death rituals in general, they exhibit an integrated structure within the socio-cultural practices and meaning codes of the Tahtaci Turcoman Qizilbash syncretism. Any study concerning the founding elements of the heteredox and syncretic qualities of the Qizilbash-Alaouite sect, a belief system specifiic to Anatolia, which is jointed to the Turkoman socio-cultural ethnicity, must be evaluated over syncretic interactions among Central Asia, migration from Central Asia, and the Anatolia. Death rituals and the meaning system attached to them point to socio-cultural practices where the mentioned integrated dynamics become visual as objective indicators.