Kübra Eser Canalp-Şehit Onur İlkhan Primary School Eskişehir/Turkey

 

legends-sahmeran

The snakes living in the province of Tarsus in the Mediterranean Region were called Meran. These serpents, living in peace, were intelligent and affectionate, and their queen was called Shahmaran. The upper part of Shahmaran's body was a beautiful woman, and the lower part of her body was shaped like a snake.
The first person to see him, Cemşab, was the son of a poor family that sold wood. Cemşab wants to extract honey from a cave with his friends, but his friends leave Cemşab in the cave to get more honey. When Cemşab noticed a light leaking hole in the cave, he enlarged this hole with his knife and saw a beautiful garden.
This garden has unique flowers, a pool and many snakes. Cemşab, who has lived here for years, gains the trust of Shahmaran, but misses his family and says that  Shahmaran will let him go, provided that he does not tell anyone about his place.
Cemşab does not tell anyone about the location of Şahmeran until the sultan gets sick. When the vizier tells that the sultan should eat the flesh of Shahmaran in order for the sultan to recover, he shows Cemşab Şahmeran's location and, seeing that Cemşab is actually sad, Shahmaran tells him to boil him and let the vizier drink his meat and feed his meat to the sultan.
The vizier dies, and the recovered sultan makes Cemşab his vizier. According to the legend, it is rumored that the snakes, who do not know that Shahmaran was killed, will invade Tarsus when they learn about it.
According to a rumor, Cemşab, who obtained a lot of information about medical science from Şahmeran, is actually Lokman Hekim.