Shâmaran: The Neolithic Eternal Mother, Love and the Kurds

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Kurdish Culture
	Shâ[maran] and Alevism
	Monotheaism: One-Goddess Era
	Methodology: Mytho-ethnography
	Notes
	Bibliography
Shâmaran
	Shâmaran: The Myth
Chapter 1: Decolonization of Shâmaran
	Introduction
	Colonialism and Internal Colonialism: Construction of “Turkish Land”
	Denial of Existence of Kurds and Kurdistan
	Shâmaran and Cultural Colonization
		Academic Articles and Thesis
	The Sources of the Myth: Jāmāsp Nāmā and Kurdish Oral Tradition
		The Written Source: Jamasp Nama and Religious Colonization
	The Islamic Religious Colonization of Jamasp Nama and Shâmaran
	Turkish Nationalism, Academia, and Colonization of Shâmaran
	Books
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Myths, History, Religion, and Kurdish Context
	Myths, History, and Religion
	The Kurds, Mythology, and the History of a Mother Goddess
	Shâmaran Is a Goddess: Deconstruction, Dualism, and Balance
	Shâmaran: The Mother Earth Goddess
	Monotheaism (Mono Goddess)
	Shem/Sham: Day, Week Days, and Shâ
	Holy Bread, Niyaz, and the Mother Goddess Worshipping
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: The Shâ: Mother [Earth] Goddess of Kurdistan
	The Traces of the Shâ
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Body and Content of Mother Earth Goddess of Kurdistan
	The Earth: Divine Body of the Mother Goddess
	The Cave
	Characteristic of the Mother Goddess: Love, Not Fear
	The Flat Stone: The Path to the Uterus of the Mother Earth
	Honey: The Magical Product of Mother Goddess
	Scorpion
	Water and Heat: Hammams, the Altars of Mother Goddess
	Mother Goddess/Shâmaran and Color Symbolism
		Red: The Color of Regeneration
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	White: The Wisdom
	Green: The Philosophy of Death and Rebirth
	Yellow: The Philosophy of Healing
	Black: The Color of Her Womb/Death
	Moral Standards of Mother Goddess Worshipping in Kurdistan
	Sacrificing Goddess for the Ruler: King/Padishah/Pasha
	Sacrificed for the Daughter of the King/Padishah/Pasha
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Shâmaran, Rêya Heqi/Kurdish Alevism, and Patriarchal Colonization
	Mother Goddess and Rêya Heqi
		Rêya Heqi: Kurdish Alevism
	Nature Worship and Mother Goddess
	Animals and the Faith
	Rêya Heqi and the Patriarchal Colonization
		Who and What Is Xizir/Khizr74
	Mother Goddess and Traditional Kurdish Architecture
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Construction of Shaytan/Satan as an Ideological Instrument
	The Mother Goddess Background in the Region
	The Shâ and Shâms: Mother Goddess of Kurdistan
	The Construction of Shaytan/Satan
	Concluding
	Notes
	Bibliography
Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
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