The Old Woman and the Eagle / Yaşlı Kadın ve Kartal

(Bilingual English-Turkish edition) In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common pattern of human thought: altering the unfamiliar to make it acceptable. This tale is specially presented for children by Afghan author Idries Shah, who, for more than 30 years, collected stories from the Sufi tradition and adapted them to contemporary Western culture. Told since ancient times throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, such tales are used to help foster greater mental flexibility and insight in people of all ages. The Old Woman and the Eagle is wonderfully illustrated by Natasha Delmar, who was taught to paint by her father, the celebrated classic Chinese painter Ng Yi-Ching.(ngilizce-Türkçe ki Dilli Bask) Bu elenceli hikâyede, yäl bir kadn hayatnda ilk kez bir kartalla karlär. Kartaln allmadk görünümü karsnda bir kuun nasl görünmesi gerektiine dair kafasnda var olan fikirlerden yola çkarak kartal deitirmeye karar verir. Kadnn bu çabalar baz insanlarda bulunan ortak bir düünme modelini yanstyor: Bilinmedik olan kabul edilebilir hâle gelecek ekilde deitirmek. Bu masal, 30 yl äkn süredir yazl ve sözlü kaynaklardan hikâyeleri bir araya getiren dris ah tarafndan çocuklara özel olarak sunuluyor. Böyle hikâyeler Orta Asya ve Orta Döu'da tüm yälardan insanlarn zihinsel esneklik ve içgörülerini gelitirmeleri amacyla çok eski zamanlardan beri anlatlr.