The Role of Mythology as a Cultural Identity and a Cultural Heritage: The Case of Phrygian Myhtology

Abstract

Human beings are meaning-seeking creatures. We, as human beings, have also imagination faculty that enables us to think and by means of these characteristics, religions and mythologies have been emerged on the earth stage since the early dates of history. So, many works of the mankind based on mythological and religious backgrounds. Within this context, the mythology has a key role in civilization and cultural movements throughout the history. The awareness of Phrygia is remarkably high in all over the world despite of being survived only two centuries (725-695/675 BCE) in Asia Minor. It owes its awareness to its history, geography and geopolitical position and mythology. In our study, we would like to state the role of mythology as a cultural identity through the samples of the Phrygian mythology.

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