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Ryder

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Generally no, though due to a lack of a book, some communities may have gone down that path.

Animal sacrifice was a lot more common. Some communities considered every killing of an animal as a sacrifice, whereas others only performed a sacrificial ritual once a year, usually spring.

The problem with Tengrism has always been the lack of a book. Without a book many of its traditions, holidays and rituals have been lost to history. No wonder why it got swallowed by Islam. Even Buddhism has holy books.

If a combined cultural ministry of the OTS collaborated and created a book which serves as a guide to Tengrism and Turkic mythology, I think that would benefit the Turkic world. We are stuck between a slowly declining Western world, an Islamic world which is rotten to the core and a rising China. We need to have our own identity.

Islam was also useful in uniting the various Turkic tribes into 1 state.

Whats interesting too Islamisation of Central Asia was not just due to the Arabs and Persians but the Turco Mongols who became Muslim played a big role in it. You had Muslim Mongols declaring Jihad on Tengrists and Buddhists. Emir Timur also played a role in the Islamisation of Central Asia and his descendant Babur took Islam deeper into India.

It made sense too at the time.

1 God
1 State
1 Empire
1 Book

Muslim Turks also clashed with Buddhist Turks. Buddhist Turks were the ancestors of modern day Uygurs.

People think its religion but its also Geopolitics.

Tengrist Turks even fought among themselves and the Gokturks exiled the Oghuz Turks.
 

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