Extent of the First Turkic Khaganate in AD 600 Ergenekon (sometimes spelled Ergeneqon, ) is a founding myth of Turkic and Mongolic peoples.Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkhAbulghazi Bahadur, "Genealogy of the Turk" Turkic version In the Turkic mythology, the myth aims to explain the foundation of the First Turkic Khaganate. The Ergenekon legend tells about a great crisis of the ancient Turks. Following a military defeat, the Turks took refuge in the legendary Ergenekon valley where they were trapped for four centuries. They were finally released when a blacksmith created a passage by melting the mountain, allowing the gray wolf Asena to lead them out. The people led out of the valley found the Turkic Khaganate, in which the valley functions as its capital. Oriental Institute of Cultural and Social Research, Vol. 1–2, 2001, p. 66Murat Ocak, The Turks: Early ages, 2002, pp. 76Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43.İbrahim Aksu: The story of Turkish surnames: an onomastic study of Turkish family names, their origins, and related matters, Volume 1, 2006, p. 87H. B. Paksoy, Essays on Central Asia, 1999, p. 49Andrew Finkle, Turkish State, Turkish Society, Routledge, 1990, p. 80 A New Year's ceremony commemorates the legendary ancestral escape from Ergenekon.Michael Gervers, Wayne Schlepp: Religion, customary law, and nomadic technology, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000, p. 60   Mongolian version In the Mongolian version, Ergenekon was the refuge of the progenitors of the Mongols, Nekuz and Qiyan (nephew and son of Il-Khan respectively), as told in the 14th-century literary history Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, written by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani.Jiexian Chen, Guoli Taiwan daxue, Proceedings of the Fifth East Asian Altaistic Conference, December 26, 1979 – January 2, 1980, Taipei, China, National Taiwan University, 1980. According to Reshideddin's record original Mongols, historically, were divided into two parts. They are: 1. Those branches descended from the Original Mongol Tribes, which had been in ارکننه قون Ergenekon… Those tribes are: The origin of Mongols were descendants from these two persons, Nekuz and Qiyan and their wives who escaped to Ergenkon. Bahaeddin Ögel, Türk Mitolojisi Vol. I, Milli Eğitim basımevi, İstanbul, 1971, Türk Mitolojisi I: 'Kaynakları ve Açıklamaları İle Destanlar, Tütk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara, 1989, pp. 14–15. Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43. It is a common epic in Mongol mythologies. Abulghazi Bahadur, khan of the Khanate of Khiva (1643–63), told of the Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth in his work, 17th-century "Shajara-i Turk" (Genealogy of the Turks). 
 Ergenekon (sometimes spelled Ergeneqon, ) is a founding myth of Turkic and Mongolic peoples.Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkhAbulghazi Bahadur, "Genealogy of the Turk" Etymology There are conflicting etymological theories about the origin of the word Ergenekon. According to academics such as Russian linguist Zoriktuev, who attribute the myth originally to Mongolic peoples, the name was derived from the Argun River (Ergune) and kun, which in the Old Mongolian language meant a high plateau with steep slopes. According to Zorikutev it's not possible for it to be derived from Old Turkic, since the place name and the dastan associated with it were later borrowed by the Turkic peoples. According to Kazakh philologist Nemat Kelimebov and other Turkic-origin advocates, Ergenekon is a portmanteau derived from Old Turkic roots ergene “fording point, passage, mountain gorge” and kon “encampment, place of living” and can be translated as “encampment (of cattle breeders) in a mountain gorge”. Variants Mongolian version In the Mongolian version, Ergenekon was the refuge of the progenitors of the Mongols, Nekuz and Qiyan (nephew and son of Il-Khan respectively), as told in the 14th-century literary history Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, written by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani.Jiexian Chen, Guoli Taiwan daxue, Proceedings of the Fifth East Asian Altaistic Conference, December 26, 1979 – January 2, 1980, Taipei, China, National Taiwan University, 1980. According to Reshideddin's record original Mongols, historically, were divided into two parts. They are: 1. Those branches descended from the Original Mongol Tribes, which had been in ارکننه قون Ergenekon… Those tribes are: The origin of Mongols were descendants from these two persons, Nekuz and Qiyan and their wives who escaped to Ergenkon. Bahaeddin Ögel, Türk Mitolojisi Vol. I, Milli Eğitim basımevi, İstanbul, 1971, Türk Mitolojisi I: 'Kaynakları ve Açıklamaları İle Destanlar, Tütk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara, 1989, pp. 14–15. Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43. It is a common epic in Mongol mythologies. Abulghazi Bahadur, khan of the Khanate of Khiva (1643–63), told of the Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth in his work, 17th-century "Shajara-i Turk" (Genealogy of the Turks). Turkic version Extent of the First Turkic Khaganate in AD 600 In the Turkic mythology, the myth aims to explain the foundation of the First Turkic Khaganate. The Ergenekon legend tells about a great crisis of the ancient Turks. Following a military defeat, the Turks took refuge in the legendary Ergenekon valley where they were trapped for four centuries. They were finally released when a blacksmith created a passage by melting the mountain, allowing the gray wolf Asena to lead them out. The people led out of the valley found the Turkic Khaganate, in which the valley functions as its capital.Oriental Institute of Cultural and Social Research, Vol. 1–2, 2001, p. 66Murat Ocak, The Turks: Early ages, 2002, pp. 76Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43.İbrahim Aksu: The story of Turkish surnames: an onomastic study of Turkish family names, their origins, and related matters, Volume 1, 2006, p. 87H. B. Paksoy, Essays on Central Asia, 1999, p. 49Andrew Finkle, Turkish State, Turkish Society, Routledge, 1990, p. 80 A New Year's ceremony commemorates the legendary ancestral escape from Ergenekon.Michael Gervers, Wayne Schlepp: Religion, customary law, and nomadic technology, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000, p. 60
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Etymology There are conflicting etymological theories about the origin of the word Ergenekon. According to academics such as Russian linguist Zoriktuev, who attribute the myth originally to Mongolic peoples, the name was derived from the Argun River (Ergune) and kun, which in the Old Mongolian language meant a high plateau with steep slopes. According to Zorikutev it's not possible for it to be derived from Old Turkic, since the place name and the dastan associated with it were later borrowed by
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myth aims to explain the foundation of the First Turkic Khaganate. The Ergenekon legend tells about a great crisis of the ancient Turks. Following a military defeat, the Turks took refuge in the legendary Ergenekon valley where they were trapped for four centuries. They were finally released when a blacksmith created a passage by melting the mountain, allowing the gray wolf Asena to lead them out. The people led out of the valley found the Turkic Khaganate, in which the valley functions as its capital. Oriental Institute of Cultural and Social Research, Vol. 1–2, 2001, p. 66Murat Ocak, The Turks: Early ages, 2002, pp. 76Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43.İbrahim Aksu: The story of Turkish surnames: an onomastic study of Turkish family names, their origins, and related matters, Volume 1, 2006, p. 87H. B. Paksoy, Essays on Central Asia, 1999, p. 49Andrew Finkle, Turkish State, Turkish Society, Routledge, 1990, p. 80 A New Year's ceremony commemorates the legendary ancestral escape from Ergenekon.Michael Gervers, Wayne Schlepp: Religion, customary law, and nomadic technology, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000, p. 60
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According to Kazakh philologist Nemat Kelimebov and other Turkic-origin advocates, Ergenekon is a portmanteau derived from Old Turkic roots ergene “fording point, passage, mountain gorge” and kon “encampment, place of living” and can be translated as “encampment (of cattle breeders) in a mountain gorge”.
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Turkic version Extent of the First Turkic Khaganate in AD 600 In the Turkic mythology, the myth aims to explain the foundation of the First Turkic Khaganate. The Ergenekon legend tells about a great crisis of the ancient Turks. Following a military defeat, the Turks took refuge in the legendary Ergenekon valley where they were trapped for four centuries. They were finally released when a blacksmith created a passage by melting the mountain, allowing the gray wolf Asena to lead them out. The people led out of the valley found the Turkic Khaganate, in which the valley functions as its capital.Oriental Institute of Cultural and Social Research, Vol. 1–2, 2001, p. 66Murat Ocak, The Turks: Early ages, 2002, pp. 76Dursun Yıldırım, "Ergenekon Destanı", Türkler, Vol. 3, Yeni Türkiye, Ankara, 2002, , pp. 527–43.İbrahim Aksu: The story of Turkish surnames: an onomastic study of Turkish family names, their origins, and related matters, Volume 1, 2006, p. 87H. B. Paksoy, Essays on Central Asia, 1999, p. 49Andrew Finkle, Turkish State, Turkish Society, Routledge, 1990, p. 80 A New Year's ceremony commemorates the legendary ancestral escape from Ergenekon.Michael Gervers, Wayne Schlepp: Religion, customary law, and nomadic technology, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000, p. 60