People say that Tengri made the world and everything in it, including all living things. He is usually shown as a good god who rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior. People think that Tengri controls the air, rain, and other natural events, which would make the link between Tengri and the natural world even stronger. Tengri is a god in the Tibetan Buddhist religion. He is often shown as an angry, strong man with a long beard and piercing eyes in pictures of him.
He is often shown with a gun, a bow, or a horse. Sometimes he is drawn with wings to show his connection to the skies. The Tibetan god Tengri is also connected to the color blue, which stands for the sky.
In Turkic mythology, Tengri is the most important god. All other gods and spirits are seen as less important than Tengri. His calling is part of many traditions and prayers, and he gets many gifts of food, drink, and other luxuries. A lot of Turkic culture can be traced back to Tengri in some way. Some Turkic people in the present day follow the Tengriist religion, which honors Tengri and other ancestors. Many Turkic khans and rulers in history had the word “Tengri” in their titles. This was a nod to the idea that they were directly related to the gods.
Tengri was the original god of the Goktürks. He was the god of the Turks. The Goktürk khans thought that the god Tengri was on their side. People thought that because these kings were Tengri’s sons, they represented him on Earth. People called these kings names like Tengrikut, Kutlu, and Kutalmysh because they thought they had kut, a mysterious and magical power given to them by the god Tengri. Before they learned about other cultures, Turks thought that Tengri was a kind of power that was either controlled by heaven or was controlled by heaven. This is where the idea of a person came from. First, when the Turkic people took over other religions, they made Tengri into a god and a “higher being” with the name Tengri.
In a Turkic story, Tengri is a pure white goose that always flies over an endless stretch of water, which represents time. Under this water, Ak Ana calls out to him, “Create!” Er Kishi isn’t as clean or white as Tengri, so Tengri makes him so Er Kishi won’t feel so alone. They make the world together. Er Kishi changes into a monster and tries to trick people into its dark world by making them think it is something else.
Before foreign ideas came in, Turkic people thought of tengri as heaven or the will that controlled heaven, which was possibly some kind of force. This is where the idea of a personal being came from. First, when Turkic people took over other faiths, the word “tengri” became the name of a personal god or “higher being.”
