of the world, were built upon. This gives us the following lesson: nation begins with the spirit and its material form, civilization; thus, spiritual integrity is needed for a people to transform into a nation.

Spirit is like the ‘bismillah’, the starting point of life. The starting point of everything is spirit. Life gradually disappears when the spiritual order weakens. If it is assumed that the world is the body, then the spirit is the life of that body.

As is understood from the Oghuznamas, the personality of Oguz Han matured very early. After maturing, he crossed his father. The area of conflict between them was the new attitudes that would shape their society. The basic difference between them stemmed from Oguz Han’s conversion away from his father’s religion. He believed in a monotheistic religion while his father believed in a polytheistic one. We feel the echoes of historical changes in these events.

I say that the ancestor of the Türkmen nation is Oguz Han because, when Oguz Han is spoken of, the first things that come to mind are belief in one God, spirit and moral values. Furthermore, I want to emphasize an important point here: the main underlying reasons for the successes, campaigns, and developments of the five thousand year history of the Türkmen nation, founded by Oguz Han, are belief, spirit and moral values. Belief in only one God provided the Türkmen nation with the power to explain all the forces of mind, reason, and heart inherent in its very nature.

The greatest rivers rise from the accumulation of the smaller water sources flowing from the slopes of the mountains.

Even the largest forests are formed by the cracking of very small seeds.