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Yarkın Sezgin accompanied me in our 20th music-video in our “Resonance” series that is video-music albums of Turkish folk songs. He is my nephew. I always dreamed that he would become a bird and explore the lands of music. With this recording, my dream came true with birds on a roof. We finally spoke bird language with Yarkın and became one in music. In the following article, I tried to express the origins of the concept of "Birds Language" in Turkish culture. I wish all our dreams that can serve beauty and unity come true ..
Lyrics - Music: Anonymous
Guitar: Yarkın Sezgin
Director: Ahmet Can Kasap
Assistant Director: Burcu Yeşilbaş
Camera: M. Kürşat Duru
Editing: M. Kürşat Duru, Ahmet Karakaş
Video Producer: ArkheFilm
Venue: Mustafa Saffet Cultural Center
Set: Selcuk Yegin
Thanks: Nazlı Günbek, Özer Ateş,
Burak Tasdemir, Ergin Kandemir
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LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS
If literature and music are a rose garden, then humans are the birds of this garden. The fact that Mantık al-Tayr (Mantık al-Tayr is translated from Persian to Turkish as "Language of The Birds") is one of the leading literary works that shape Anatolian culture is an important case that proves this. We can understand that the concept of Bird Language has an important place in our culture since Gülşehri revised this work with the same name later. Beyond that, it is known that Mevlana, one of the most important figures of the Anatolian cosmic consciousness, was most influenced by this work when he was writing Mesnevi.
As we can deduce from the story in this work called Language of Birds, bird language has been the language of Tengri(it means God in the Ancient Turkish) since the Ancient Turks. As Mantık al-Tayr refers, after man dies, his soul flies into the sky as a bird towards God. The other birds looking for the Simorgh(It mostly like Phoenix), the God-bird, reach an end at the end of the work, where they discover that each is already a Simorgh (Tengri, God). The birds are actually looking for themselves. In fact, they fly both to themselves and to God, and their souls depend on Tengri through the language of birds. Death, as we can find in Tassavuf, is a state of meeting and ending the episode since ancient Turkish beliefs. This belief could still come across traces of today's Turkey. For example, on the tombstone of Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, one of the most important poets/bards of the last century, "If God says come to me, I open my wing and fly to the sky." writes.
According to the belief of Sufism, which is the synthesis of the Anatolian universe consciousnes with Islam, man has come to the world. It is said that the general attitude we find in Mantık al-Tayr contains important ideas that shape Sufism. In the belief of Sufism, the purpose of human existence is to know the language of the bird, which is the language of the world, and thus to be a bird in the world. Bird language is the language of God and the realm. Prophet Solomon forms the equivalent of the bird language myth in the Qur'an. The fact that he knows and speaks the bird language is one of the main miracles of the Prophet Solomon. In all monotheistic religions, the prophets communicated with God through angels. Let's remember that angels are represented by bird figures. This deep-rooted similarity is an important situation that reveals that the bird language is passed on to us as the language of God.
One of the oldest myths about Language of The Birds is the legend of the Tower of Babel. According to this myth, all people on earth lived in the Tower of Babel and spoke the same language (considered as Bird Language). This situation went to God's difficulty because speaking the same language gives man a divine power. God ultimately becomes angry at this situation, giving a different language to each flat of the tower, removing them from the bird language and disrupting the divine harmony between them. Here, a lover's nightingale of his lover, bringing him into the language of a bird shows us the unity of love that flows from mystical and esoteric sources to Turkish folk language. Language of The Birds is the language of the desired unity and harmony with the lover. This song called “Raindrops Fall Upon Stones” is said in Turkish language as the most important proof of loyalty to the great and lofty sources.