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Tengri
Sign in to saveTengri (; Old Uyghur: 13px ; Middle Turkic: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Proto-Turkic: / ; Mongolian script: , ; , ; , ) is the all-encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turkic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and various other nomadic religious beliefs. Some qualities associated with Tengri as the judge and source of life, and being eternal and supreme, led European and Muslim writers to identify Tengri as a deity of Turkic and Mongolic peoples. According to Mongolian belief, Tengri's will (jayayan) may break its own usual laws and intervene by sending a chosen person to earth.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- turkic
- Deity.name
- Tengri
- Deity.gender
- Male
- Deity.deity_of
- God of Heaven
- Deity.abode
- Sky
- Deity.ethnic_group
- Turkic peoples
- Deity.spouse
- Umay
- Deity.image
- Orkhon.svg
- Deity.caption
- Spelling of 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 tengri in the Old Turkic script (written from right to left, as t²ṅr²i)
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Tengri (; Old Uyghur: 13px ; Middle Turkic: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Proto-Turkic: / ; Mongolian script: , ; , ; , ) is the all-encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turkic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and various other nomadic religious beliefs. Some qualities associated with Tengri as the judge and source of life, and being eternal and supreme, led European and Muslim writers to identify Tengri as a deity of Turkic and Mongolic peoples. According to Mongolian belief, Tengri's will (jayayan) may break its own usual laws and intervene by sending a chosen person to earth.
It is also one of the terms used for the primary chief deity of the early Turkic and Mongolic peoples.