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Tradition collection 45 records

Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic

Tengrism, Scythian religion, Siberian and Sámi tradition.

  • Extent Eurasian steppe, Siberia and northern Scandinavia, roughly 800 BCE to the present.
  • Holds 27 gods · 6 figures · 6 traditions · 3 texts and stories
Meet the gods
Beaivi Erlik Snake-Legged Goddess

Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page

Before you count

Much of this is recorded through Chinese, Persian, Russian and missionary observers.

What else it is missing

Gods · 27

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 27 gods

Not its own picture Api — Scythian Gold, coin type

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Figures · 6

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 6 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Traditions · 6

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

Texts and stories · 3

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 3 stories

Also here · 2

Also in this collection

Kinds it holds only one or two of, each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 45 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
157
With references
21
Undated
39
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Much of this is recorded through Chinese, Persian, Russian and missionary observers.
  • 'Shamanism' is a category imposed from outside and is used here only where a source uses it.
  • Living practice is under-recorded relative to the historical material.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds none.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

Keep going

Walk Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Tengri’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Genghis Khan