Köke Möngke Tengri

Eternal Blue Sky; supreme heaven who decreed the wolf's destiny.

Domains

• sky
• fate

Powers

• Ordain the right of the Khan to rule the world
• Grant strength and protection to the favored

Epithets

• ᠮᠦᠩᠬᠡ ᠲᠩᠷᠢ mongolian · Möngke Tngri'Eternal Heaven' — the supreme sky invoked in Chinggisid edictsSecret History of the Mongols; imperial edict formulae (primary)
• ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠲᠩᠷᠢ mongolian · Köke Tngri'Blue Heaven' — the Eternal Blue SkySecret History of the Mongols (primary)

Relations

• spouse: Etügen EkeEternal Blue Heaven and Etugen Eke the earth-mother form the sky-earth consort pair of Mongol cosmology.Heissig, The Religions of Mongolia (1980) (secondary)
• equated with: TengriReciprocal of turkic_tengri.equated-with — One sky-god across the steppe: same name, same mandate-giving function (qut/suu bestowed on khans). The Mongol 'Eternal Blue Sky' is more impersonal fate-heaven; the Orkhon Teŋri acts in dynastic history.Orkhon inscriptions (Kül Tegin, 8th c.): Kök Teŋri; Secret History of the Mongols §1: Möngke Tenggeri (primary); Jean-Paul Roux, 'Tängri. Essai sur le ciel-dieu des peuples altaïques', RHR (1956) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: The Secret History of the Mongols, §1 (13th c.) (primary)