Deity Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic
Tengri
Chief deity of Turko-Mongolic religion
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Tengri
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 5
Kinship in an account 5
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Accounts
Where Tengri appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
The earliest account held here Computed
Orkhon inscriptions written 8th century CE
A date for the text, never for the deity.Connections
How Tengri connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 14
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- identified with Allah Arabic word for God
- identified with Caelus Roman god of the sky
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identified with Jehovah Latinate transliteration of יהוה (YHWH) with the vowel points of Adonai -
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identified with Jupiter chief deity of Roman state religion -
identified with Perkūnas deity -
identified with Perun Slavic supreme god of the sky and war - identified with Shangdi The High God, the supreme or single God of ancient Shenism, some salvationist religions like Yiguandao, and Protestant Christianity in Chinese translation
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identified with Shiva one of the principal deities of Hinduism, the Supreme Being in Shaivism and transformer within the Trimurti -
identified with Tinia Etruscan god
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identified with Ukko god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology -
identified with Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities -
identified with Varuna deity associated with waters in Hinduism, Buddhism -
identified with Yahweh national god of ancient Israel and Judah kingdoms, god of monotheistic Judaism and Abrahamic religions -
identified with Zeus Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
Attribute 1
What this means
A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.
Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
19 statements on this record
- 19 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.