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He is the Spirit of God and creator god in Turkic mythology. Sources describe them both as father and mother, thus neutral. Usually not depicted in anthropomorph form. [1] Erlik or Erlik Khan – God of the dead and of the underworld. Ulgan (or Ulgen) – God of benevolence, planets, stars, and shamans. Son of Kaira. He is a Turkic creator-deity.
Turkic mythology refers to myths and legends told by the Turkic people. It features Tengrist and Shamanist strata of belief along with many other social and cultural constructs related to the nomadic and warrior way of life of Turkic and Mongol peoples in ancient times .
Yunus Emre was a Turkish folk poet and Sufi mystic who influenced Turkish culture. Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries.
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Namık İsmail's proposed coat of arms of Turkey, bearing the wolf Asena. Asena is the name of a she-wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth. [1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales". [2]
The Aruğ (Arı) denotes "good spirits" in Turkic and Altaic mythology. They are under the order of Ülgen and do good things on earth. [98] Mergen is the son of Kayra and the brother of Ülgen. He represents mind and intelligence and sits on the seventh floor of the sky. Erlik is the god of death and the underworld, known as Tamag.
Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half-snake and half-woman, portrayed as a dual-headed creature with a crown on each head, possessing a human female head on one end, and a snake's head on the other, possibly representing a phallic figure. [3]
The wolf Ashina (Kökböri) plays a great part in the Epic of Ergenekon which is the founding myth of all Turkic and Mongolian tribes.. According to the legend when Ötöken, the capital city of the Göktürks was attacked and all residents killed by the enemy - only one boy survived the massacre.