{"id":784439,"date":"2023-05-30T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=784439"},"modified":"2023-09-15T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:54:59","slug":"why-do-turkish-pour-water-when-someone-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/05\/30\/why-do-turkish-pour-water-when-someone-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Turkish pour water when someone leaves?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-do-Turkish-pour-water-when-someone-leaves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tengri sits on the sky , mighty and powerful . His creations yer-sub earth \u2014 water is sacred for Turks in very early times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/what-does-pouring-water-mean.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/what-does-pouring-water-mean.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/what-does-pouring-water-mean-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pouring water after the back of the outgoing guest can also be illustrated as an example of the \u201cwater cult\u201d in Tengrism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Idea is simple. Water is holy and most important thing for life. Throwing water behind traveling guests means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh &#8221; yer &#8211; earth\u201c let my people travel safe and fast. I offer you your most valuable thing Water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earth most valuable thing is water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It travel&#8217;s and feeds underground spirits that could give them safe passage. It brings them luck. Also \u201csu gibi git, su gibi gel \u201c go as water , come back as water. Fast as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mongols throwing milk or Siberian spilling milk is similar means\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Altay Dag<\/strong> on Quora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tengri sits on the sky , mighty and powerful . His creations yer-sub earth \u2014 water is sacred for Turks in very early times. Pouring water after the back of the outgoing guest can also be illustrated as an example of the \u201cwater cult\u201d in Tengrism. Idea is simple. Water is holy and most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":784440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}