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Turkic Erlik, Erlig, Erlik Khan, Mongolian Erleg or Yerleg (Hungarian mythology equivalent to Ördög) is the god of death and the underworld, sometimes referred to as Tamag (hell) in Turkic mythology. Er (or yer) means Earth, in the depths of which Erlik lives in. [1] From the underworld, Erlik brings forth death, plague and evil spirits to ...
Creation. There are many Mongol creation myths. In one, the creation of the world is attributed to a Buddhist deity Lama. At the start of time, there was only water, and from the heavens, Lama came down to it holding an iron rod with which he began to stir. As he began to stir the water, the stirring brought about a wind and fire which caused a ...
In Mongolian shamanism, tngri constitute the highest class; [2] they are attested already in the oldest written source in Mongolian, The Secret History of the Mongols. [3] The highest deity, Tngri, is the "supreme god of heaven" and is derived from Tengri, the primary chief deity in the religion of the early Turkic and Mongolic peoples, and also goes by Möngke Tngri ("Eternal Heaven") or ...
Tengri was the main god of the Turkic pantheon, controlling the celestial sphere. [27] Tengri is considered to be similar to the Indo-European sky god, *Dyeus, and the structure of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion is closer to that of the early Turks than to the religion of any people of Near Eastern or Mediterranean antiquity. [28]
Erlik is the god of death and the underworld, known as Tamag. Ay Dede is the moon god. Another god is Natigai, who was the god of pregnancy, children, livestock, wives, and health. [94] The highest group in the pantheon consisted of 99 tngri (55 of them benevolent or "white" and 44 terrifying or "black"); 77 "earth-spirits"; and others.
Ulgan (or Ulgen) – God of benevolence. Son of Kaira. He is a Turkic and Mongolian creator-deity. Mergen – God of wisdom. Son of Kaira. He is a Turkic deity of abundance and knowledge. Kyzaghan – War god of the European Huns. The first Turks did not have a war god. Kyzaghan is the son of Kayra and the brother of Ulgan.
Mongolian shamanism is an all-encompassing system of belief that includes medicine, religion, a reverence of nature, and ancestor worship. Central to the system are the activities of male and female intercessors between the human world and the spirit world, shamans (böö) and shamanesses (udgan).
List of death deities. Yama, the Hindu god of death and Lord of Naraka (hell). He was subsequently adopted by Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as the king of hell. Maya death god "A" way as a hunter, Classic period. The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine ...