Tengri — The Eternal Blue Sky

The Mongols did not build temples. They worshipped under the open sky, because Tengri — the Eternal Blue Sky — could not be contained inside walls. Tengri was the supreme deity of the Mongol shamanic tradition: the sky itself, vast, impartial, eternal, the source of all authority and legitimacy. Genghis Khan claimed that Tengri had mandated his conquests — that the sky god had chosen him to rule the world. It was a claim that carried enormous weight in a culture where the sky was quite literally God. Every Mongol ruler after him invoked the same mandate. Heaven had spoken. The question was only whether you would listen.

These signs carry the eternal blue sky, the sacred mountain, the shaman's drum, and the nine celestial spheres of the Mongol cosmos.