The Reflection on the River: Who is Mergen?
I have always obsessed over names. I love small details that tie everything together in the background, even if nobody knows about them. So of course, when I was creating my blog I needed to find the most perfect name. In all honesty, I probably spent more time figuring out what I would call my blog than writing most of my pieces. Despite this, people have told me outright that they do not understand the name. I probably wouldn't have encountered this problem if, instead of Mergen, I had picked someone like Zeus, which, at this day and age, could still confuse people. Truthfully, I thought that I had known who Mergen was but after writing this I realized that he stood for much more than I had realized. Illustration of what the average tale described Mergen to look like, generated using OpenAI's DALLE 3, 2026. Mergen is a god found in Tengrism, an ancient religion that was practiced and created by the Turkic and Mongolic people. In Turkic mythology, he plays a role as the dei...
