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Day
5
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Thursday,
May 11
Ankara to
Konya
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Day
began with visit to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations located in the
old walled citadel of Ankara. After museum visit, we drove to Konya. Had
traditional tea with Nazli Kocbecker and her family. Nazli is an early childhood
educator at Seljuk University in Konya. In the evening we were privileged
to view a whirling dervish ritual. Our hotel in Konya was Hotel Balikcilar. |
Vedat
is giving us an introduction to the museum. It is an exceptional museum for
those interested in Turkey's past.
Hittite
representation of fertility .
Ceiling
of Museum
Margie
admires the Mother Goddess, a Hittite fertility symbol.
Nazli showed
us her father's fez. He was part of the Mevlana sect of Moslems.
Nazli
shows us her mother's wedding dress.
Nazli
and her mother.
Nazli's
parents wedding photo.
Group
photo with Nazli in her living room.
The
musicians for the whirling dervish ritual.
The
whirling dervishes meditating before their dance.
The man in
black is the watcher. He is to help guide dervishes back to position if they
get too close to each other.
Below,
is the beautiful Mevlana Museum at night, as seen from Balikcilar Hotel room.
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