"word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had ""learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it"". The book does not say what that price was, or give further details on the Deplorable Word. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the"
"patterns, since Islamic religious tradition discourages the depictions of humans and living creatures (animals) in its sculpture. Through Persian arts miniatures and paintings, however, the depictions of humans and animals survives. In Muslim Spain period, the lion court of Alhambra palace displays the lion statues as supporters and waterspout of fountain. ""Aslan"" or ""Arslan"" (Ottoman ارسلان ""arslān"" and اصلان ""aṣlān"") is the Turkish and Mongolian word for ""lion"". It was used as a title by a number of Seljuk and Ottoman rulers, including Alp Arslan and Ali Pasha, and is a Turkic name. The lion symbolism and its cultural depictions"
"city of Bogazköy, Turkey. The ""Lion of Menecrates"" is a funerary statue of a crouching lioness, found near the cenotaph of Menecrates. The lion is by a famous Corinthian sculptor of Archaic Greece, end of the seventh century BC, and is now in the Archaeological Museum of Corfu. Lion in the Iranian mythology is a symbol of courage and monarchy. He is portrayed standing beside the kings in artifacts and sitting on the graves of knights. Imperial seals were also decorated with carved lions. The lion and sun motif is based largely on astronomical configurations, and the ancient zodiacal sign"
"Maraş lion The Maraş lion is a Late Hittite sculpture of a lion with a hieroglyphic inscription. It was discovered on the citadel of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş) in 1883 and is displayed in the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum. John David Hawkins assigned it the name ""Maraş 1"", while Winfried Orthmann used ""Maraş B/1"". Massive sculptures of lions are a recurrent feature of Hittite art, especially in the Neo-Hittite period. The lion statue was discovered in 1883 by Carl Humann and Otto Puchstein on their Anatolian travels in the castle of ""Marʿasch"" (modern Kahramanmaraş). A second, uninscribed lion which was slightly larger"
"Maraş lion The Maraş lion is a Late Hittite sculpture of a lion with a hieroglyphic inscription. It was discovered on the citadel of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş) in 1883 and is displayed in the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum. John David Hawkins assigned it the name ""Maraş 1"", while Winfried Orthmann used ""Maraş B/1"". Massive sculptures of lions are a recurrent feature of Hittite art, especially in the Neo-Hittite period. The lion statue was discovered in 1883 by Carl Humann and Otto Puchstein on their Anatolian travels in the castle of ""Marʿasch"" (modern Kahramanmaraş). A second, uninscribed lion which was slightly larger"
"Konrul In Turkic mythology, Konrul or Kongrul / Konqrul (""Koñrul"", Azerbaijani: ""Qonrul"") is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn. In Turkish folklore, Konrul refers to a supernatural bird, often glossed as, or identified with, the Greek Phoenix or Persian ""Simurg"" (in Turkish languages Semrük). Konrul is depicted as a winged creature in the shape of a bird, gigantic enough to carry off an elephant. It appears as a peacock with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion; sometimes however also with a human face. It has an enmity towards snakes and its natural"
"their production units, the definition generally excludes companies who have their headquarters in the largest cities of Turkey; namely İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa and Adana, as well as companies constituted with public capital. The term is also echoed, in the form ""Anatolian Lions"" (Turkish: ""Anadolu Aslanları""), by the name of the private sector association Askon that brings together businessmen from a number of other cities who have found common grounds between each other. This association has branches in Ankara, Burdur, Bursa, Gebze, İzmit, Konya, Malatya and Trabzon. These lions are less often cited among the tigers for several reasons. Other"
"Leo become a popular emblematic figure in the 12th century. (""cf."" Zodiacal origin, above) Fuat Köprülü suggests that the lion and sun on the Turkic and Mongolic flags and coins of these times are merely astrological signs and do not exemplify royalty. The lion and sun symbol first appears in the 12th century, most notably on the coinage of Kaykhusraw II, who was Sultan of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm from 1237 to 1246. These were ""probably to exemplify the ruler's power."" The notion that ""the sun [of the symbol] symbolized the Georgian wife of the king, is a myth,"
"lions"". The word derives from the Berber root ""hr,"" meaning lion (see also Tiaret and Souk Ahras). The name is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as ""uharu"" and ""ahra"". A locally popular legend tells that in the period around AD 900, there were sightings of lions in the area. The two last lions were killed on a mountain near Oran, and it became known as ""La montagne des lions"" (""The Mountain of Lions""). Two giant lion statues stand in front of Oran's city hall, symbolizing the city. During the Roman empire, a small settlement called Unica Colonia existed"
"was left ""in situ"" by one of the fortress gates, while the inscribed lion was taken to the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul. A plaster cast was produced for the Berlin Museums. After many years, the lion was transferred to the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum on 30 August 2013, at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (""Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı""). The sculpture has been analysed by numerous scholars, including Ekrem Akurgal, Helmuth Theodor Bossert, John David Hawkins and Winfried Orthmann. The basalt sculpture is 0.41 metres high, 0.73 m long and 0.23 m wide. It is in very good"
"İye İye (sometimes İne or Eğe; , ""İyĕ""; , ""İyä""; , ""İççi""; , ""Эе""; , ""Ee""; , ""Эга""; ; , ""Ije"") is a deity or spirit in Turkic mythology who is a guardian, patron or protector of a place, person, lineage, nation, natural assets or an animal. The term means owner, master, lord, possessor in Turkic languages. Ezen (familiar spirit, protector spirit) has the same meaning (owner, possessor) in Mongolian language. An İye guides, helps, or protects animals, individuals, lineages, nations, and even inanimate assets such as mountains or rivers. According to the shamanic worldview, everything is alive, bearing an"
"generally dedicated to the male- and see that one is complete with it. This might have led to or sourced from the term ""at-beyi"" (horse-lord). The dragon (Evren, also Ebren), also expressed as a snake or lizard, is the symbol of might and power. It is believed, especially in mountainous Central Asia, that dragons still live in the mountains of Tian Shan/Tengri Tagh and Altay. Dragons also symbolize the god Tengri (Tanrı) in ancient Turkic tradition, although dragons themselves are not worshiped as gods. The World Tree or Tree of Life is a central symbol in Turkic mythology. According to"
"known as ""Liwa' Iskenderun"". Liwa (Arabic) Liwa, or Liwā’ (), is an Arabic term meaning ensign, or banner. The word has developed various other meanings in Arabic: ""Liwa"" was used interchangeably with the Turkish term ""Sanjak"" in the time of the Ottoman Empire. After the fall of the empire, the term was used in the Arab countries formerly under Ottoman rule. It was gradually replaced by other terms like qadaa and mintaqa and is now defunct. It is only used occasionally in Syria to refer to the Hatay Province, ceded by the French mandate of Syria to Turkey in 1939,"
"Extensive contact took place between Proto-Turks and Proto-Mongols approximately during the first millennium BC; the shared cultural tradition between the two Eurasian nomadic groups is called the ""Turco-Mongol"" tradition. The two groups shared a religion, Tengrism, and there exists a multitude of evident loanwords between Turkic languages and Mongolic languages. Although the loans were bidirectional, today Turkic loanwords constitute the largest foreign component in Mongolian vocabulary. The most famous of these loanwords include ""lion"" (Turkish: ""aslan"" or ""arslan""; Mongolian: ""arslan""), ""gold"" (Turkish: ""altın""; Mongolian: ""altan"" or ""alt""), and ""iron"" (Turkish: ""demir""; Mongolian: ""tömör""). Some lexical and extensive typological similarities between"
"(modern Zhelai Zhai) to the Juan Juan seeking inclusion in their confederacy and protection from the prevalent dynasty. The tribe were famed metalsmiths and were granted land near a mountain quarry which looked like a helmet, from which they were said to have gotten their name 突厥 (""tūjué""). A century later their power had increased such that they conquered the Juan Juan and established the Gök Empire. Turkic peoples originally used their own alphabets, like Orkhon and Yenisey runiforms, and later the Uyghur alphabet. Traditional national and cultural symbols of the Turkic peoples include wolves in Turkic mythology and tradition;"
"In his native Turkic language, Baibars' name means ""great panther"". Possibly based on that, Baibars used the panther as his heraldic blazon, and placed it on both coins and buildings. On the Bridge of Jindas, the lions/panthers used play with a rat, which may be interpreted to represent Baibars' Crusader enemies. According to Moshe Sharon, the lions on Jisr Jindas are similar to the ones on the Lions' Gate in Jerusalem, and Qasr al-Basha in Gaza. All represent the same sultan: Baybars. The Gaza lions were created with interlocking lines suggesting leopard spots, however, the felines' outline is similar. Sharon"
"in turn is from the Tamil-Sanskrit சிங்க ""singa"" and புர , which is cognate to the Greek , ""pólis"". According to the Malay Annals, this name was given by a fourteenth-century Sumatran Malay prince Sang Nila Utama, who, on alighting the island after a thunderstorm, spotted an auspicious beast that appeared to be a lion on the shore. Lion-headed figures and amulets were excavated in tombs in the Greek islands of Crete, Euboea, Rhodes, Paros and Chios. They are associated with the Egyptian deity Sekhmet and date to the early Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC. The"
"the name Kilij Arslan (""kılıç-arslan"") means ""sword-lion"". The Central Asian Turks and their offshoots begun using curved cavalry swords beginning from the late Xiongnu period. The earliest examples of curved, single edged Turkish swords can be found associated with the late Xiongnu and Kok Turk empires. These swords were made of pattern welded high carbon crucible steel, generally with long slightly curved blades with one sharp edge. A sharp back edge on the distal third of the blade known as ""yalman"" or ""yelman"" was introduced during this period. In the Early Middle Ages, the Turkic people of Central Asia came"
"for beast-shows. In Transcaucasia, the lion was present until the 10th century. The peak of its historic range covered all of the plains and foothills of eastern Transcaucasia westward almost to Tbilisi. Northwards, its range extended through the eastern Caucasus, from the Apsheron Peninsula to the mouth of the Samur River near the current Azerbaijan-Russia border, extending to the Araks river. From there, the boundary of its range narrowly turned east to Yerevan, with its northern boundary then extending westward to Turkey. Lions feature in ancient Greek mythology and writings, including the myth of the Nemean lion, which was believed"
"forms, the lion has no apotropaic meaning and was merely decorative. However, it sometimes has an astrological or symbolic meaning. One of the popular forms of the lion is explicitly heraldic form, including in the Persian coat of arms (the lion and sun); the animal in the coat of arms of the Mamluk Baybars and perhaps also in that of the Rum Saldjukids of the name of Kilidi Arslan; and in numismatic representations. Ahmad Kasravi, Mojtaba Minovi and Saeed Nafisi's vast amount of literary and archaeological evidence show that the ancient zodiacal sign of the sun in the house of"
"Liwa (Arabic) Liwa, or Liwā’ (), is an Arabic term meaning ensign, or banner. The word has developed various other meanings in Arabic: ""Liwa"" was used interchangeably with the Turkish term ""Sanjak"" in the time of the Ottoman Empire. After the fall of the empire, the term was used in the Arab countries formerly under Ottoman rule. It was gradually replaced by other terms like qadaa and mintaqa and is now defunct. It is only used occasionally in Syria to refer to the Hatay Province, ceded by the French mandate of Syria to Turkey in 1939, at which time was"
"probably starting its existence as a winged lion-griffin statue on a monument to the god Sandon at Tarsus in Cilicia (Southern Turkey) about 300 BC. The figure, which stands on the eastern column, at some point came to represent the “Lion of Saint Mark”, traditional symbol of Saint Mark the evangelist. The figure standing on the western column is St. Theodore of Amasea, patron of the city before St Mark, who holds a spear and stands on a crocodile (to represent the dragon which he was said to have slain). It is also made up of parts of antique statues"
"The name comes from Persian and means ""the lions"", although it is most likely to be an adaptation of the former Greek name of ""Cheriana"" (Χερίανα) adopted after the Turkish settlement in the region after and possibly even slightly before the Battle of Manzikert. Many of the northern villages of the district was home to minority populations of Pontic Greeks until the 1922 Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, constituting the southern fringes of that community's extension. Some among the present population can also trace their roots to Greeks who had converted to Islam until as late as the end"
"In February 2015, in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) publicly ordered the bulldozing of a colossal ancient Assyrian gateway lion sculpture from the 8th century BC. Another lion statue was also destroyed. Both statues originated from the Arslan Tash archaeological site. The destruction was published in the ISIL magazine, ""Dabiq"". Arslan Tash reliefs The Arslan Tash reliefs are bas-reliefs of human figures and animals which adorned the city gates and temple portals of ancient Hadatu; the modern archeological site of Arslan Tash, literally ""the Stone Lion"". (Turkish; Arslan - ""Lion"", Taş"
"composed of two Turkic words: ""kara"", meaning black, and ""kulak"", meaning ear. The first recorded use of this name dates back to 1760. Alternative names for the caracal include gazelle cat, red cat, ""rooikat"", and red or Persian lynx. The ""lynx"" of the Greeks and Romans was most probably the caracal and the name ""lynx"" is sometimes still applied to it, but the present-day lynx proper is a separate species. The caracal is a slender, moderately sized cat characterised by a robust build, a short face, long canine teeth, tufted ears, and long legs. It reaches nearly at the shoulder;"
"and east of the Oxus, while Iraj symbolizes the Iranian people, living in Iran. The premiere was attended by Mustafa Kemal and his official guest, the Shah of Iran, Shah Reza Pahlavi, since a major theme of the opera was the long-standing friendship between the Turkish and Persian peoples. Following that performance, the two leaders met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish the basis of friendship and cooperation for the two new nations, the Republic of Turkey and the Imperial State of Iran (Pahlavi Dynasty). Hakan Feridun (Fereydun Khan) has twin sons; Tur (Wolf) and Īraj (Lion). Right"
"in a combination of diplomacy and military action, allowing the Mamluks of Egypt to greatly expand their empire. In his native Turkic language, Baibars' name means ""great panther"" or ""lord panther"" (see also Wiktionary: ""bay"" ""rich person, noble"" + ""pars"" ""leopard, panther""). Possibly based on the Turkic meaning of his name, Baibars used the panther as his heraldic blazon, and placed it on both coins and buildings. The lion/panther used on the bridge built by Baibars near al-Ludd (today's Lod) plays with a rat, which may be interpreted to represent Baibars' Crusader enemies. Baibars was a Cuman born in the"
"animals as were dragons or gryffins, which also commonly appeared on coats of arms. National currencies of three countries in Europe are named after the lion: the Bulgarian lev (, plural: лева, левове / leva, levove), and the Moldovan and Romanian leu (/leŭ/, plural: lei /lej/) all mean ""lion"". A lion appears on the South African 50-rand banknotes. No less than 18 consecutive ships of the British Royal Navy bore the name HMS ""Lion"". Also, various other navies have used the name for their vessels, as did civil shipping companies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios have used a lion as their logo since"
"further to the north, with traces of foundations and walls, are visible on the surface to this day. Arslanlı (the name meaning, ""the place with the lion"") locality, at a distance of from the town center to the north, is where a lion's statue, on display at the near the municipality building, as well as abundant pottery was found. Further traces of stone craftsmanship is also noticeable at Arslanlı and it has been suggested that ancient Pisye was constituted in two separate settlements. A number of additional findings aside from the lion's statue garnish the municipal park, and further ancient"
"Turkish national sports."" Tepegoz In Turkic mythology, Tepegoz or Tepegöz is a legendary creature who has only one eye on his forehead —a kind of cyclops. He is an ogre that appears in the Book of Dede Korkut, a famous epic story of the Oghuz Turks. In Turkic languages, ""tepe"" means high/hill, and ""goz"" means eye. The circular opening at the top of a yurt or ger is also called tepegoz. In the first chapter of the Book of Dede Korkut, enemy forces attack Oghuz lands (Azerbaijan and Turkish lands). When local Oghuz villagers retreat, the son of Aruz is"
"a Turkic word meaning ""Dashing Equestrian"", ""Man of Courage"" or ""Athlete"", was first alleged to speak just before New Year's Day in the winter of 1977 when he was eight years old. Zoo employees were the first to notice his ""speech"", but he soon delighted zoo-goers at large by appearing to ask his attendants for water and regularly praising or (infrequently) chastising himself. By 1979, his fame as the ""Speaking Elephant"" had spread in the wake of various mass-media stories about his abilities, many containing considerable fabrication and wild conjecture. Batyr's case was also included in several books on animal"
"remarkable silver dirhams were struck in Kaykhusraw’s name at Sivas and Konya depicting a lion and sun. While coins with images are not unknown in Islamic lands, particularly in the centuries following the Crusades, some Islamic traditions forbid representations of living things. Several explanations of the lion and sun have been offered. One suggests that the images represent the constellation Leo, the astrological sign of Kaykhusraw's beloved Georgian wife Tamar. Another says that the lion represents Kaykhusraw and the sun Tamar. Kaykhusraw II Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II or Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Kaykhusraw bin Kayqubād () was the sultan of the Seljuqs"
"Arslan Isra'il Arslan Isra'il, also known as Arslan Yabgu (died 1032) was a Turkic chieftain, who was from the Kınık tribe, which would later establish the Seljuk Empire. His name Arslan means ""the lion"". Kınık tribe was one of the Oghuz Turkic tribes. They emerged in the area north of the Seyhun (Syr Darya River). According to some historians, they might be the former vassals of the Khazars. They settled around the city of Jend, which was close to the territory of the Karakhanids, who controlled most of Transoxiana. However they were unruly neighbors. During the Karakhanid - Samanid wars"