Synergetic and metaphysical bases of Genghis Khan's Tengriism

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Synergy, Tengriism, Genghis Khan, Central Asia, the Altai-Baikal region, religion, nomadic society

Abstract

 Being an effective remedy of social self-organisation and self-control, «sacral vertical» of space in nomadic societies of Turkic Mongol peoples of the Central Asia and Altai-Baikal region, tengriism carried out functions of the national-state religion from the initial stage of the occurrence and development of “nomadic” civilisations of Eurasia.

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Abaev N. V., Fel'dman V. R., Khertek L. K. Semeino-rodovye otnosheniia kak forma samoorganizatsii v kochevoi tsivilizatsii // Sotsial'nye protsessy v sovremennoi Zapadnoi Sibiri (Sbornik nauchnykh statei). – Gorno-Altaisk, RIO «Univer-Print», 2001.

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01.07.2009

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Nomads of the Asian continent

Author Biography

  • Nikolay V. Abaev Tuvan State University
    Doctor of History, Professor, Department of philosophy

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