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Erkliğ Han

Turkic and Altai deity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6751951 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erkliğ Han is the deity of space in Turkic and Altai mythology. He is responsible for stars, meteorites and celestial objects, and also associated with virility. Erkliğ means "strong".

In Tengrism, he is the lord of the planet Venus. According to the belief, Erkliğ Han is responsible for falling stars in the sky. These are called fiery arrows. He is also associated with the disappearing of stars during the rise of the sun by "killing" them.

Due to similarity to the name Erlik, some scholars confuse Erkliğ with Erlik, the lord of the underworld.

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The public source identifies “Erkliğ Han” as turkic and Altai deity. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Erkliğ, Turkic and Altai.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 94-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Erkliğ, Turkic and Altai providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Erkliğ Han” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.