Dual Kingship - a Turanian concept
People skeptical about Turanism often bring up how “little in common” do the supposed Turanian peoples have, or bring up “the biology”. So, in an effort to counter them, I bring an example of a Turanian concept that was at one time very widespread amongst the Turanian nations: Dual Kingship.
The concept of dual kingship is a simple one - you have two kings at one time, one who handles religious affairs, the other who handles military affairs. I will bring three examples of such a concept being used amongst Turanian nations: amongst the Hungarians, the (((Khazars))) and other Turkic nations, and amongst the Japanese.
Before 904, the Hungarians, like their former (((Khazar))) overlords, whose vassals they were at one point, had a system of dual kingship. In this system, we had a kende or kündü, who handled religious affairs and communed with God or the gods (Tengriism has monotheistic variants too), and a gyula who handled military affairs. Basically, the kende/kündü was the Great Shaman or God Emperor (God Khan?) who in reality had little temporal power, while the gyula was the military guy with the real political powers.
The kende/kündü only shows himself four times a month, and if he ever gos out, his whole army goes with him, lest he be seen by unworthy mortals. In the unlikely case that that happens, the mortal is supposed to keep their head down until the kende/kündü rides away.
In 904, the last independent Kende, Kurszán was killed during a raid, and the gyula at the time, Álmos simply took both ttitles to himself, merging the two titles and creating the Hungarian single-ruler monarchy as we know it.
(((Khazars))) and other Turkic nations
The (((Khazar))) equivalent of kende/kündü was the kündür or khagan, and the equivalent of the gyula was the khagan-beg. Wikipedia writes:
According to Arabic sources, the lesser king was called îšâ or khagan-beg and the greater king Khazar khâqân; the former managed and commanded the military, while the greater king's role was primarily sacral, less concerned with daily affairs. The greater king was recruited from the Khazar house of notables (ahl bait ma'rûfīn) and, in an initiation ritual, was nearly strangled until he declared the number of years he wished to reign, on the expiration of which he would be killed by the nobles. The deputy ruler would enter the presence of the reclusive greater king only with great ceremony, approaching him barefoot to prostrate himself in the dust and then light a piece of wood as a purifying fire, while waiting humbly and calmly to be summoned
One might thing that this kind of ruling system was synonymous with Tengriism and would go away once the (((Khazars))) converted to (((Judaism))), but no - their conversion to (((Judaism))) in fact helped to consolidate this system and it became even more deeply entrenched in (((Khazar))) life.
I’m not revealing any secrets when I say that I consider the Japanese to be a Turanian people, distantly related to my Hungarians. Even more interestingly, the Japanese too had a variant of the Turanian sacral diarchy, or dual kingship.
During the Yayoi period in Japanese history, Queen Himiko (卑弥呼) was the ruler of the Yamatai Kingdom. It is said that her powers were mostly religious, and that she was considered sacred, so she would use an intermediary to foster communications between her and the people - said intermediary also handled the military and pesky government affairs, while she was busy communing with the kami (神), or spirits/gods. I also read that it was actually her brother who handled the military and government affairs - conflicting sources. TL;DR: she was more like the Shinto equivalent of the Pope than a true secular monarch.
I also read that during the Yayoi period, this was the standard: the leaders of the various Yamato clans wouldn’t contact leaders of other clans - or even foreigners, like the Chinese - directly, but only via intermediares. This strengthens my theory that the Japanese too had a system of dual kingship similar to that of the Hungarians and (((Khazars))).
And off course, let’s not forget about the elephant in the room: the Shogunate. Before the Meiji Restoration during the mid-19th century, Japan had system of dual kingship, with religious power resting in the hands of the Emperor or Tennō (天皇), and actual secular power in the hands of the Sei-i Taishōgun (征夷大将軍), or just Shogun. This is evident from the actual etymology of the words, with the earlier literally meaning “heavenly king”, the latter roughly translating to “(great) general”.
Just like with the Hungarians and (((Khazars))), the actual greater religious ruler was considered sacred and wasn’t supposed to show his/her face to the common people, with the real political and military power lying in the hands of the lesser military king. Even after the Meiji Restoration gave the Emperor of Japan real political power by removing the Shogun (and promptly reduced it by creating a constitutional monarchy with liberal tappings), the Emperor would be continued to be revered as a divine God-Emperor until 1945, when the Allies forced the Emperor of Japan to admit being a mortal.
