Sun Khan

Eldest of Oghuz Khagan's six sons and, with his twin Moon (Ay), one of the two senior sons; eponym of the Bozok wing. In the Oghuznāme the elder three sons receive the golden bow, the younger three the silver arrows.

Parentage

• Oghuz Khagan

Domains

• eponymous ancestry

Epithets

• Bozok

Relations

• twin sibling: Moon Khan
• sibling: Star Khan
• sibling: Sky Khan
• sibling: Mountain Khan
• sibling: Sea Khan

Sources

• Oghuznāme (Uyghur Oghuz Khagan epic), 13th–14th c.
• Rashīd al-Dīn, Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (c. 1300–1310)