one soul to another. These ideals regenerate in the souls of future generations.

The spiritual life has three essential components. These are the mind, wisdom and memory. The first two we inherit from our forefathers. I always see the making of human life and maturity in two periods.

The first period is the one in which the person does not know about or recognize himself. The second is the one when man starts to know and recognize himself. The period which starts after man gets to know himself is called the period of memory. In this period the human memory grows to completion and he remembers the events and happenings that take place in this period. In other words, this period is the individual and personal life. The man lives off the experiences of the lives of his ancestors before this period. It is wisdom that presides over this earlier period. This wisdom includes properties inherited from our forefathers, such as body, blood, creativity, renewal, productivity and mobility.

The noble spirit of his ancestors makes the Türkmen very active and joyous in his spiritual world. This spirit is the source of his love for the Türkmen nation, language, religion, nature, music, of his love for his family and life, in sum, for all proper traditions.

The Türkmen nation had a national character from its birth. This character adopted different qualities at different times but it has not lost its core values and has progressed continuously over five periods.

The first age of the Türkmen Spirit is the period from BC 5000 to AD 650. The spiritual leader of the nation in this age was Oguz Han. He worked as a simple and honest Türkmen. The sacred symbol of the era is the ox. The ox shapes nature