#eurasian steppes

[sinoheritage]

Tian Shan 天山 (also known as Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too) is a large system of mountain ranges in Western China and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan)

Tian Shan is considered sacred in Tengrism, a religion originating in the Eurasian steppes. It was the prevailing religion of ancient nomadic groups like the Göktürks, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Mongolic peoples, and the Huns. As well as the state religion of several medieval states, such as the Turkic Khaganates and the Mongol Empire.

In Chinese mythology, it’s believed that Chinese gods dwell above Tian Shan when on heaven, and in Tian Shan when on earth.

[songs-of-the-east]

Kyrgyz Girls from Sary-Mogol, Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan - Jimmy Nelson

[livequrious]

How a 4,000-Year-Old Sheep Solved a Bronze Age Plague Mystery

For decades, a profound mystery has lingered over the vast, windswept grasslands of Eurasia. It concerns a silent traveler, an invisible killer that moved with astonishing speed across a continent thousands of years before the age of mass transportation. During the Bronze Age, a period of great upheaval and migration from roughly 2900 to 500 BCE, a persistent plague haunted human settlements from…

How a 4,000-Year-Old Sheep Solved a Bronze Age Plague Mystery

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Pole Cap with Antelope

Eurasian steppes, 6th/4th century B.C.

Bronze sculptures of real and imaginary animals are generally known as “Ordos” after the Ordos Desert in which they were first discovered in the early twentieth century. This northern and northwestern frontier of China—which also includes the forests and grasslands of present-day Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, southern Siberia, and parts of Central Asia was occupied by hunting and herding tribes during the first millennium B.C. The precise ethnic identities of most of these tribes are unknown; ancient Chinese texts refer to many of these tribes by ancient regional names rather than by the names by which the tribes called themselves.

[casimir0]

Ukrainian Cossacks - Oleksiy Potapenko

[songs-of-the-east]

Turkistan, Kazakhstan

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A Gaugauz Girl from Bolhrad Raion, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.

The Gaugauz are a Christian Turkic group from the Bessarabian region of Eastern Europe. They traditionally claim descendants from the Turkic Bulgars who migrated to Eastern Balkans through the Eurasian Steppes in the Middle Ages.

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An Eagle Hunter From Kazakhstan