Geser

Geser Khan, the great hero of the Buryat Abai Geser epic, the celestial-born champion (heavenly name Bukhe Belligte) who is the middle son of Khan Khormusta, chief of the fifty-five western tengri. After Khormusta vanquishes and dismembers the eastern khan Atai Ulan, whose scattered body engenders the demons and monsters of the middle world, the western tengri send Geser down to be born among humans and rid the earth of those evils. Classed demigod, mirroring the Buryat first-shaman culture-hero tier (buryat_morgon_kara), since Geser is a heaven-descended being who lives out a human heroic career. His parent-edge to canaanite-style paternity is added here on buryat_khan_khormusta, whose own entry already names him father of Geser; the reciprocal child-edge is left for the maintainer to mirror.

Parentage

• paternal: Lord of the Western Sky

Domains

• heroic champion
• monster slaying
• otherworld endowed hero

Powers

• Descend from the western tengri to be born among humans as their champion
• Hunt down and destroy the monsters spawned from dismembered Atai Ulan

Epithets

• Bukhe Belligte latin · Bukhe Belligte · myththe heavenly name of Geser before his descent to the middle worldcyberleninka.ru, Buryat Hesariad: Tengrist mythology and the epic interpretation (secondary)

Relations

• descendant of: Lord of the Western SkyThe paternal edge is also recorded in parentIds; add the reciprocal ancestor-of / parent acknowledgement on buryat_khan_khormusta.cyberleninka.ru, Buryat Hesariad (Geser the middle son of Khan Khormusta) (secondary); Abai Geser (Buryat epic; ed. A. I. Ulanov, Ulan-Ude, 1960) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Abai Geser (Buryat heroic epic; ed. A. I. Ulanov, Ulan-Ude, 1960) (primary); cyberleninka.ru, Buryat Hesariad: Tengrist mythology and the epic interpretation (secondary)
• Geser Khan is the middle son of Khan Khormusta, chief of the 55 western (white) tengri; after Khormusta defeats and dismembers the eastern khan Atai Ulan, whose body-parts become earthly demons, Geser is sent down from heaven and born among humans to destroy them.: Walther Heissig, The Religions of Mongolia (1980) (secondary); cyberleninka.ru, Buryat Hesariad: Tengrist mythology and the epic interpretation (secondary)