Kut, the divine mandate of sovereignty, flows through Ötüken — the Orkhon inscriptions declare that whosoever holds the sacred forest-mountain receives heaven's charisma, and whosoever abandons it loses the right to rule.
The Orkhon inscriptions bind Ötüken to Tengri's mandate — the sacred forest-mountain is the earthly seat from which heaven's kut flows into the Turkic realm, and to abandon it is to lose the Eternal Sky's favor.
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