This study concerns the cultural metaphors in Kutadgu Bilig. Metaphor topic and methods, within the context of cultural linguistic and cognitive linguistic, have been exemplified from the text of Kutadgu Bilig. The field of the study of cultural linguistic consist of cultural schemas and cultural categories as well as cultural metaphors. Cultural linguistic emphasises the transforming of society culture in terms of linguistics. Cultural linguistics supports the understanding that cultural metaphors contain the life of a society, perception and mentality also its cognitive basis. After the introduction this study provides information about cultural linguistic definition, explanation and methods. The creation of cultural metaphors in a cognitive context (embodied, container, orientation) and how they can be commented upon in their cultural context is discussed with examples. After these explanations, metaphoric expressions which include conceptual fields like abstract concepts and morals, death and life, social life, governing, people’s names and addresses are explained in their cognitive and cultural context. In conclusion, those concepts which are based on metaphors which have been found and explained are employed to attempt to explain the cognitive and cultural view. In the Kutadgu Bilig there are two types of metaphors. One hand, the cognitive view orientation, content, land areas, object-matter and personalized metaphors, on the other hand the cultural view historical, religious and base metaphors. Because of the limitation of this study only some of main metaphors are emphasised.