What was the Religion of the Mongols?

The Mongols are of course famous for the successes of their armies, and especially their horsemen and horse archers, although in this video I'd like to explore an aspect of the Mongols not often explored: their religion. While various Mongols were at various times Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and more, their traditional, native religion was one known as Tengriism or Tengrism, the worship of the Sky-God Tengri. In this video I'll be exploring this belief set as part of a wider series on philosophy covering both the Western and Eastern Philosophies and Belief-Sets.

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[SerBuckets]

Tengri literally means Sky. Khukh Tengri is Blue Sky. We Mongols traditionally don't believe there is a sky "god" but we worship the sky and the universe as whole

[AcidTripOk]

A Mongol warrior who commits a terrible deed and loses his soul to the underworld, then has to seek a shaman to explain him how to get his soul back, then embark to a journey to the underworld to redeem himself and recover his soul... I'd totally watch a series about that!

[onijxtt]

Fun fact, I am Kazakh/Mongolian and the first Kazakh word I learned is Shanyrak, which is the crossing of wood you see in the Tengriist symbols, at the top of the yurta, and in many flags like the Kyrgyz flag 🇰🇬

[serhangul]

Great informative video. But PLEASE for the love of tengri, stop using chinese music in videos about Turks and Mongols.

I've seen this so many times and it hurts me inside. Turks and Mongols were both the biggest enemies of Chinese back in time. As such, Turkish or Mongolic cultures have almost nothing in common with chinese, including music, beliefs, dressing and food.

[unknownmf]

I want to thank you for this amazing video man. It's pretty precise. Thanks alot!

- From a Siberian Tatar. 😊

[szekelylunahun]

Hungarians and turks had also same tengrism religion.

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

Tengriism: the coolest faith you've never heard of.

[A_Koenig]

Fascinating to see how similar the traditions of the Mongols/Turks are to what we assume to be the Proto-Indoeuropean tradition, from the figures of the Gods to the teachings about the soul! It seems as if the nomadic lifestyle in the steppes very much directs the focus of a people towards the radiant Sky and its symbolism of Light, Eternity, Masculinity and Virtue.

[KadirAksu]

Turks are proud of Tengriism because it was their ancestral religion aswell not because they claim to be Mongol.

[woodyz]

That annoys me so much that Mao and the communist party destroyed those artifacts..

[ladonnacross]

Well thank you. This has been the beginning of my study of my Mongolian heritage

[hrjyrug]

Khok Tengri Altai Közektsin. 🇹🇷🇺🇿🇹🇲🇲🇳🇰🇬🇰🇿🇦🇿👊🦅

[angela_merkeI]

Slavic Paganism or Zoroastrianism would be really nice.

[MonsieurDean]

A 40 minute video, hm? Well, best get my popcorn!

[HassanUmer]

Would like to see a video about Tengrism and its relation with various Turkic peoples, which you touched up very briefly here when you mentioned Turkey and Krygzstan. Great, informative video, as always. Cheers n' beers!

[donedwards]

In many ways you can see allot of this in Native American culture and religion. Might be something to look into in the future and show how similar they are.

[tyisen]

In Turkey, it is believed that there are about 30000 + Tengriists, but unlike other muslim communities, we have a lot of rituals passing from the Tengriist belief, and i consider myself a Tengriist (you cannot become a Tengriist by law though )

And we consider ourselves Turkic, not Mongolian

[Apricot]

Thank you! I was raised in a turkish family of muslims but I always knew I was meant for something else. I cut all contact with that religious lunatics years ago but always felt so alone. Like something was missing.. Now I know my past and path ❤️✨

[raycooper]

I was researching German history via your videos and stumbled upon this....i have studied runic inscriptions and Teutonic beliefs....and so many puzzle pieces fell into place via the context of this video..bravo....I am in love with this topic now....

[Anesthesia]

I learnt an awful lot from this video and wow: what a belief system! Balance, harmony, environmental respect along with shamans and animal guides...why are we not encouraging this across the world? :)