Mergen

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{{about|the deity|people with the name|Mergen (name)|the northeastern Chinese city|Nenjiang City}}

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Mergen (Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰼𐰏𐰤) is a Turkic deity of abundance and wisdom. Mergen is often depicted with a bow and arrow in one hand. Other important symbols include a white horse and the color white. He is associated with profundity and depicted as a strong and powerful bull. Mergen is the son of Kayra[http://lib.kbsu.ru/Elib/books/3/39/Общетюрская%20мифология.pdf С. И. Эфендиев, ОБЩЕТЮРКСКАЯ МИФОЛОГИЯ И ЕЕ ФОЛЬКЛОРНЫЕ СВЯЗИ]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Necati Demir, [http://web.itu.edu.tr/~yayla/turkmit.pdf Mitoloji], ITU Yayınları and the brother of Ulgan, and lives on the seventh floor of sky. He was portrayed as a young man with a helmet and a bow riding on a white horse. Mergen symbolizes intelligence and thought.