Mergen

The Altai god of wisdom, reason and unerring archery, a son of the creator Kayra Khan who holds the seventh heaven. In the south-Siberian cosmogonic genealogy recorded by Radloff and Anokhin he stands beside his brothers Ülgen and Kızagan as the intellect of the upper world.

Parentage

• Kayra

Domains

• wisdom
• reason
• archery
• abundance

Sources

• Wilhelm Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens, vol. I (Altai, 1866); A. V. Anokhin, Materialy po shamanstvu u altaitsev (1924)