Moon Khan
Tengrist · quartigod · legendary · Recorded classification
Second of Oghuz Khagan's six sons and twin of Sun (Gün); eponym of the Bozok wing alongside his brothers.
Parentage
- father: Oghuz Khagan
Domains
- eponymous ancestry
Epithets
- BozokOf the 'broken-bow' senior wing.Abū al-Ghāzī Bahādur Khan, Shajara-i Tarākima (1659) (secondary)
Relations
- twin sibling: Sun KhanMoon and Sun, the twin elder sons of Oghuz.Oghuznāme (Oghuz Khagan epic) (primary)
- sibling: Star KhanOghuznāme (Oghuz Khagan epic) (primary)
- sibling: Sky KhanOghuznāme (Oghuz Khagan epic) (primary)
- sibling: Mountain KhanOghuznāme (Oghuz Khagan epic) (primary)
- sibling: Sea KhanOghuznāme (Oghuz Khagan epic) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Oghuznāme (Uyghur Oghuz Khagan epic), 13th–14th c. (primary); Rashīd al-Dīn, Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (c. 1300–1310) (secondary)