Ulgen’s Family Tree

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Family

• Etugen(parent),Tengri(parent),Naran(sibling),Saran(sibling)— Marriage

  Tengri (Father Heaven) and Eje (Mother Earth) are the primordial divine pair whose sacred union produced Ulgen, Saran (the Moon), and Naran (the Sun), establishing the celestial order of Mongolian cosmology.

Enemy of

• Erlik
• Kormos

Serves

• Tengri

  Ulgen, benevolent son of Tengri, governs the upper heavens beneath his father's supreme authority. Shamans journey to Ulgen's realm to petition on behalf of the living, but Ulgen himself operates within Tengri's cosmic order.

Equivalent to

• Ülgen(Turkic)

  Ülgen, the benevolent lord of the upper world who receives white horse sacrifices and breathes souls into the unborn, is the same deity in both Turkic and Mongolian shamanic traditions — creator of the world, adversary of Erlik, and master of the celestial layers above.

Associated with

• Genghis Khan

  Ulgen, benevolent creator of the upper world, represents the heavenly realm from which Genghis Khan received his mandate. The divine light that impregnated Alan Gua and established the Borjigin bloodline emanated from Ulgen's domain.