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She is commonly depicted with a crescent moon, often accompanied by stars; sometimes, instead of a crescent, a lunar disc is used. Often a crescent moon rests on her brow, or the cusps of a crescent moon protrude, horn-like, from her head, or from behind her head or shoulders.
41:) conceived of as a god. Koyash and Yalchuk are categorized as among the visible gods. Yalchuk is said to have lived on a mountain top in a house with seven stories, from which she controlled 52:, drawn by horses or oxen. Like her companion Koyash, the Sun, who drives his chariot across the sky each day, Yalchuk is also said to drive across the heavens. She has power horns on head. 97: 208: 136:
KÚNOS, Dr. Ignaz (1902). Şeyh Süleyman Efendi, Çağatayca-Osmanlıca Sözlük, Section Orientale de la Société Ethnographique Hongroise.
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The word Yalçuk means bright or shining. Another meaning of the word is envoy or delegate
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In ancient Turkic folk religion and myth, Yalçuk is the divine embodiment of the
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Turkic mythology
Moon
Sun
Koyash
the fate of the world
chariot
"Yalçuk"
ISBN
978-1-57731-950-4
"Yalçuk"
"Yalçuk"
Koyash
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mythology
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expanding it
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Turkic goddesses
Tengriism
Lunar goddesses
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