Before Islam: The Faith of the Mongols and Turks

🎥 Watch 250+ exclusive videos on Youtube ►    / @kingsandgenerals   and ✔ Patreon ►   / kingsandgenerals   The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations and nomadic cultures continues with a video on the Tengriism - the shared religion of the Turks and Mongols. Under the endless blue sky of the Eurasian steppe, the ancient Turks and Mongols worshipped Tengri – the Eternal Blue Sky – long before Islam, Christianity, or Buddhism reshaped Inner Asia. This video explores the original religion of the steppe nomads: Tengrism. We follow its elusive origins, from the Orkhon inscriptions and the Gokturk Khaganate, through rich Turko-Mongolic mythology with sky gods, wolf ancestors, and powerful spirits tied to horses, fire, and the natural world. We then track how Chinggis (Genghis) Khan and his successors used Tengri to legitimize the Mongol Empire and build an imperial ideology that could coexist with Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Finally, we examine how Tengrism declined, survived on the fringes of Siberia, and is now being rediscovered as part of Turkic and Mongolic cultural identity in the modern era. Rise and Fall of the Khazar Khaganate:    • Rise and Fall of the Khazar Khaganate - Ar...   Who were the Cuman-Qipchaq Peoples?:    • Who were the Cuman-Qipchaq Peoples? - Anci...   Huns:    • Huns: The Origin   White Huns:    • White Huns: Rise and Decline   Gokturks:    • Gokturk Empire - Nomadic Civilizations DOC...   Ghaznavids:    • Ghaznavids: From Slaves to the Rulers of C...   Seljuks:    • Rise of the Seljuk Empire - Nomadic Civili...   Turkification of Anatolia:    • Turkification of Anatolia - Nomads DOCUMEN...   Mongol History:    • Mongols: Rise of the Empire - Battle of Ye...   Ottoman Empire series:    • Ottoman History (OLD VIDEOS)   Minoan Crete:    • Minoan Crete: Myth Versus Reality - Ancien...   Samnites: Rome’s Early Nemesis:    • Samnites: Rome’s Early Nemesis - Ancient C...   Arabia Before Islam: Religion, Society, Culture:    • Arabia Before Islam: Religion, Society, Cu...   Vandals:    • Rise of the Vandals: How the Vandals Took ...   How Rome Conquered Greece:    • How Rome Conquered Greece - Roman History ...   Did the Trojan War Really Happen:    • Did the Trojan War Really Happen?   Demosthenes:    • Demosthenes: Greatest Enemy of Philip of M...   Ancient Greek Politics and Diplomacy:    • Ancient Greek State Politics and Diplomacy   Pyrrhic Wars:    • Pyrrhus and Pyrrhic War - Kings and Genera...   Ancient Macedonia before Alexander the Great and Philip II:    • Ancient Macedonia before Alexander the Gre...   Diplomatic Genius of Philip of Macedon:    • Diplomatic Genius of Philip of Macedon   Etruscans:    • Etruscans: Italian Civilization Before Anc...   Bosporan Kingdom:    • Bosporan Kingdom - Longest Surviving Ancie...   Ancient Greek State in Bactria:    • Ancient Greek State in Afghanistan   The Greco-Chinese War Over the Heavenly Horses:    • The Greco-Chinese War Over the Heavenly Ho...   Ancient Greek Kingdom in India:    • Ancient Greek Kingdom in India   Script: Christos Nicolaou Animation: Arb Paninken http://bit.ly/2Ow3oC8 Narration: Liam Taylor ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/kingsand... ✔ Podcast ► http://www.kingsandgenerals.net/podcast/ ✔ Twitter ►   / kingsgenerals   ✔ Facebook ►   / kingsgenerals   ✔ Instagram ►  / kings_generals   Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound: http://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00:00 - Under the Eternal Blue Sky: Tengrism Introduced 00:01:34 - Elusive Origins of the Sky Faith 00:06:17 - Gods, Spirits, and the Turko-Mongolic Cosmos 00:09:49 - Tengrism and the Ideology of the Mongol Empire 00:13:13 - From Tengri to Islam and Buddhism 00:16:26 - Survival and Revival of Tengrism in Modern Times 00:18:53 - Legacy of Tengri and the Endless Steppe Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o... #Documentary #Mongols #Turks