Cosmic Elements in Mevlev？ Legends

People have been in an important relationship with cosmic elements since the early days of history, that is, sky, stars, planets, and objects that they dreamed and/or dreamed of in the sky before they moved to the modern age and the life-cycle of urbanization. However, the incredible change and development of urbanization, industry, and technology has detached man from nature and therefore sky. Although humanity has sent a vehicle to many planets as a result of scientific research about space and acquired important information about space, this is not the case for ordinary people. This rupture caused the knowledge of the sky to begin to be forgotten in social memory as well as information about nature. The industrial revolution, technical and technological developments and the change of the means of production have reduced the need of people for the sky. Therefore, these developments gradually disrupted the relationship of people with the sky. In the past, many cultural elements that require celestial interest and the need for these elements have been replaced by less, limited knowledge and insensitivity to the sky. In Turkish culture, great attention has been given to the sky, which is seen as the roof of the world before Islam, which is the main subject or place of many mythical stories about all the elements of which shamans travel, and in the Islamic period as a manifestation of the power of the creator. This importance and interest, as in the oral culture, has found a place in the written culture. Especially in hagiography which is written to address all sections of the society, great respect and importance to the sky are constantly told. This information in literary and historical works is important to monitor the changes that society has undergone from past to present and to determine the cause of these changes. In this study, the elements related to the sky in the work of Ahmed Eflak？'s Menak？bül-arif？n were examined. The celestial bodies such as the pleiades, saturn, mercury, jupiter, nine felek, nesr, ferkadan, spica/arcturus, canopus, anthem determined from the texts were taken together with the backgrounds in Turkish culture