Kayra

Altai-Turkic creator-father dwelling in the highest heaven.

Children

• Kızagan
• Mergen
• Ülgen

Domains

• creation

Powers

• Call the cosmos into being by command
• Beget the ordering deities Ülgen and Erlik
• Divide the cosmos into the three realms of air, water and land

Epithets

• Кайра Хан Altai Turkic · Kayra Khan · epithetthe Merciful/Benevolent Khan (creator-father)Wilhelm Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme (Altai cosmogony) (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: ÜlgenW. Radloff, Aus Sibirien (1884); Altai-Turkic creation accounts making Ülgen the son of the high creator Kayra (Kayra Khan) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Altai creation song, in W. Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur (1866) (primary)