Tengri

Japanese: tengri
Tengri

For example, the Xiongnu worshipped the heavens, as can be seen in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han, and there is a similar record of the Tuoba tribe, who founded the Northern Wei Dynasty (Book of Wei). The supreme deity of the Mongolians, Tengri, also means the sky, and even today, many Altai peoples, far north Asian peoples, and Finno-Ugric peoples use the same word to refer to the sky and the supreme deity. It has been said that the one God in the sky in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc., and the belief or idea of ​​heaven in China are originally of the same origin, and there are attempts to find in them the characteristics of a nomadic/patriarchal culture in contrast to the agricultural/matriarchal belief in the earth goddess (Ishida Eiichiro).

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "tengri" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…たとえば,匈奴(きようど)が天を祭ったことは《史記》や《漢書》にみえているし,北魏をおこした拓跋(たくばつ)部にも同様の記録がある(《魏書》)。モンゴル族の至上神テングリtengriは同時に天空を意味し,今日においてもアルタイ系民族,アジア極北民族,フィン・ウゴル語族系諸族の多くは,天空と至上神とを同じ言葉であらわしている。ユダヤ教,キリスト教,イスラム教などにおける上天の唯一神,中国における天の信仰ないし思想も,もとは同根だとし,そこに農耕的=母権的な地母神信仰に対する,遊牧的=父権的文化の特性を見いだそうとする試みもなされている(石田英一郎)。…

※「tengri」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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