Khukh tengri significa "ceo azul" en mongol, e os mongois aínda lle rezan a Munkh Khukh Tengri ("Eterno Ceo Azul") e Mongolia é chamada poeticamente "Terra do Eterno Ceo Azul" (Munkh Khukh Tengriin Oron) polos seus habitantes. Na moderna Turquía, o tengrismo é coñecido como Göktanrı dini ("relixión do Deus Ceo");[7] en turco "Gök" (ceo) e "Tanrı" (Deus), correspóndense cos khukh (azul) e Tengri (ceo) mongois, respectivamente. Segundo investigacións arqueolóxicas húngaras, a relixión do pobo húngaro até o final do século X (antes do cristianismo) era o tengrismo.[8]
↑R. Meserve, Religions in the central Asian environment. In: History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume IV, The age of achievement: A.D. 750 to the end of the fifteenth century, Part Two: The achievements, p. 68:
"[...] The ‘imperial’ religion was more monotheistic, centred around the all-powerful god Tengri, the sky god."
↑Michael Fergus, Janar Jandosova, [Tengrismo en Google Books. Kazakhstan: Coming of Age], Stacey International, 2003, p.91:
"[...] a profound combination of monotheism and polytheism that has come to be known as Tengrism."
↑"There is no doubt that between the 6th and 9th centuries Tengrism was the religion among the nomads of the steppes" Yazar András Róna-Tas, Hungarians and Europe in the early Middle Ages: an introduction to early Hungarian history, Yayıncı Central European University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-963-9116-48-1, p. 151].
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↑Jean-Paul Roux, Die alttürkische Mythologie, p. 255