# Tengrism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/tengrism/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 068 Tengrism Tengriism; the Eternal Blue Sky c.400 BCE – present (revived) · Indigenous / Folk · Revived / Reconstructed · Mongolia, Central Asia, Siberia, Turkey V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - c.400 BCE–200 CE Xiongnu confederation; the earliest recognisable sky-cult. - 552–744 CE Göktürk khaganates — gök means both sky and blue. - 732–735 CE Orkhon inscriptions erected. - 1206 CE Genghis Khan proclaimed; he attributes his conquests to Tengri's mandate. - c.1240 CE Mongol religious tolerance — the empire exempts clergy of all religions from taxation and hosts formal interfaith debates at Karakorum between Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Daoists. This is one of the earliest state policies of religious pluralism anywhere. - 1253–55 CE William of Rubruck's mission; the fullest European account. - c.1300–1500 CE The western khanates convert to Islam; Mongolia proper converts largely to Tibetan Buddhism from 1578. - 1990s–present Post-Soviet revival, sometimes as a genuine religious movement and sometimes as an ethnic-nationalist alternative to Islam or Orthodoxy. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door