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Tengri or Tengger (Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, romanized: Kök Teŋri/Teŋiri, lit. 'Blue Heaven'; tängri; Middle Turkic: تآنغرِ; Ottoman Turkish: تڭری; Kyrgyz: Теңир; Kazakh: Тәңір; Turkish: Tanrı; Azerbaijani: Tanrı; Bulgarian: Тангра; Proto-Turkic: *teŋri / *taŋrɨ; Mongolian script: ᠲᠩᠷᠢ, T'ngri; Mongolian: Тэнгэр, Tenger; Uyghur: تەڭرى, tengri) is the King of the Gods of the Turco-Mongol mythology, he was the main deity of Altaic Peoples in nomadic times, he is the supreme god and Incarnation of the Universer, during the the expansion of Mongol Empire Tengri was identified as the God of Turco-Mongols Peoples both by Europeans and Muslims.

In the Mongol Cosmogony Tengri can may break its own laws, but choose a pseron with the the purpose of send to earth.

The Importance of Tengri in the Altaic religion It was very influential in the religion until the point that the official name of the shamanic altaic religion was call Tengrianism in his honor, the core beings are Tengri the Sky Father (Tenger Etseg) and the Earth Mother (Umay Ana). The Trengrianism involves ancestor worship because for the Altaics Tengri was the progenitor of ancestors aand by extension of humanity.

History[]

Tengri was the main god of Göktürks, he is call often call "god of the Turks" (Türük Tängrisi). The Göktürk khans generally were accept as the Tengri Children, who are his representative in the eath, they have suck like titles in the honor of Tengri like tengrikut, kutluġ or kutalmysh.

For via foreign influences, the Altaic conception of tengri was changed by a new cosmogony, where the regarded as the heaven or the will controlling heaven.

Tengri had the role of the King of Gods worshipped by the ruling in the central asia peoples, from the 6th to 9th centuries, but Tengri lost importance when the Uighuric kagans adopted the Manicheism as them new religion during the 8th century, but the Tengrianism (Tengri Cult) come to Eastern Europe by the Huns and the early Bulgars.

In the Turco-Mongol cosmogony Tengri was seen as the chief god creator of cosmos. Additionally was a celestial being, Tengri had minor deities as servan for his purposes, that were his children too. As Gök Tanrı, he was the father of the sun (Koyash) and moon (Ay Tanrı) and also Umay, Erlik, and sometimes Ülgen.

Although Ülgen in sometimes is identified with Tengri.

Mythology[]

Name[]

The name Tengri eveloves from the Proto-Turco-Mongol *teŋri that meant sky, heaven or god, also can reconstructed with the Altaic etymology *T`aŋgiri It's meaning is oak or god, this emphasize his domion and divinity over the skies and heavens, It is generally is an evidence that the term Tengri meant "sky".

Biblical God[]

Tengri like other pagan deities sky such as ʾIlu, Dievas and Zojz, his name is use in modern times as a name for Yahweh, by the Christian Mongols.

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