The Bulgarians were never tengriists neither we worshipped Tengri tengriism is a primitive shamanism and has absolutely nothing in common with our pagan prechristian beliefs The Bulgarians were early Zoroastrians  the cult to the Sun and the Fire we were building fire temples like the Persian ones There is not even one evidence to support the thesis that we were tengriists or that we called the god with the name TangraTengri In fact there is this evidence by the Persian scholar AlBalkhi that says I heard the Bulgarians call the Creator with the name Edfu and when I asked them how they call their idol they answered Fa  AlBalkhi a persian scholar lived in the th century M Tahir Le livre de la creation de elBalhi Paris  v IV p  Articles like this one filled with turkish crap and administrated by primitive psychosick people like this jingby makes wikipedia look highly unreliable now I understand why it is forbidden to be cited in scientific and academical studies and universities