Erlik

Tengrist · deity · primordial · deity

First man and rebel; lord of darkness, opposite of Ülgen.

Domains

underworld
death
disease and plague

Powers

Rule the nine layers of the lower world
Initiate and claim the black shamans (kara kam)

Epithets

Erlik Khan

Relations

sibling: Ülgen
enemy: Ülgen
equated with: Erlig Khan

Sources

Altai creation song, in W. Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur (1866)

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