This article is about Asena in Turkic mythology. For other uses, see Asena (disambiguation).
Namık İsmail's proposed coat of arms of Turkey, bearing the wolf Asena
Asena is the name of a she-wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth.[1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales".[2]
The legend of Asena tells of a young boy who survived a battle; a female wolf finds the injured child and nurses him back to health. The she-wolf, impregnated by the boy, escapes her enemies by crossing the Western Sea to a cave near the Qocho mountains and a city of the Tocharians, giving birth to ten half-wolf, half-human boys. Of these, Yizhi Nishidu[3] becomes their leader and establishes the Ashina clan, which ruled over the Göktürk and other Turkic nomadic empires.[4][5]
In certain cultural narratives and mythological accounts, the character of Asena, with its symbolic association to a she-wolf, is denoted by the name "Bozkurt" (meaning Gray Wolf in Turkish), embodying a significant archetype with multifaceted connotations.[6]
^Ziya Gökalp, transcription: Şahin Filiz, "Türk devletinin tekâmülü 12: Hakanlık Teşkilatı",Küçük Mecmua -II-, Bu da Çinlilere göre (Asena=Kurt) manasındadır(in Turkish)
^Golden, Peter B. (August 2018). "The Ethnogonic Tales of the Türks" in The Medieval History Journal, 21(2). 21 (2): 291–327
^Hongen, Niu; 牛鴻恩 (2015). Xin yi Yi Zhou shu. 袁宏. (Di 1 ban ed.). Taibei Shi: 三民書局. ISBN 9789571460192. OCLC 913445355.
^Findley, Carter Vaughin. The Turks in World History. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-517726-6. Page 38.
^Roxburgh, D. J. (ed.) Turks, A Journey of a Thousand Years. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005. Page 20.
^Koto, Koray (2023-07-21). "Börü: The Wolf in Turkic Mythology". ULUKAYIN English. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
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