Among the Turkish tribes and the Mongols, a designation for certain heavenly beings. The Buriats call their sky-god Esege Malan Tengri—‘Father Bald-head Tengri’. The supreme sky-god of the Mongols is called → Qormusta Tengri....
TENGRI. The earliest attested occurrence of a word in an Altaic language is the transcription into Chinese of the word tengri in the Qian Han shu (juan 94). It has kept this or a related form (tenggeri, tanara, tängri, tanri, tari, et al.) down...
Tengri is the supreme God of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hungarian and Altaic religion named Tengriism. There are no official symbols of Tengriism, however the symbol of the World Tree and the four directions symbol are common....
