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Top left: The lexical entry in the American Heritage Desk Dictionary, 1981. Top center: The Cosmogonic Diagram of Mu representing the Sky God and the Universe, from “The Lost Continent of Mu by J. Churchward”. Top right: The gilded cover of An’am Sharif, an Arabic manuscript of prayers and excerpts from the Quran (1761), from “Ariel Magazine, p. 23, # 106, 1998”. Bottom left: A walnut chest to hold a country girl’s dowry, with the symbol set in mother-of-pearl, as well as the central eye motif to ward off the evil eye. These and the wooden latticework screen seen in the photo on our entrance page are original items of Turkish folklore from the region of Antalya. Bottom center: The flag of autonomous Turkish Teke Principality in South Anatolia in the early 14th century, symbolizing its capital city Antalya as an M-sided castle built over the seaport; picture from “N. Danişmend, Türklük Mecmuası # 1, April 1939, p. 16A”. Bottom right: The carving on the ruins of a temple of antiquity at Assos, Çanakkale, photographed by Doğan Türker (1996).
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