Lord of the Western Sky
Buryat · deity · primordial · deity
Spirit-class chief sky-god (classed as deity). Borrowed name (from Ahura Mazda) but fully naturalized as a Buryat/Mongolic tengri; included here in the Buryat shamanic-epic context, distinct from the steppe-Mongol pantheon already registered.
Children
Domains
- sky
- war protection
Powers
- commands the fifty-five western (white) tengri
- sends his son down to earth as a divine champion
Epithets
- Khan Khormusta
Relations
- descendant of: Grandmother of the Sky
- equated with: Qormusta Tengri
Sources
- cyberleninka.ru, 'Buryat Hesariad: Tengrist mythology and the epic interpretation'
- Walther Heissig, The Religions of Mongolia, 1980
- Qormusta Tengri scholarship summarized on etymology (Heissig; cyberleninka Buryat Hesariad)