AHC mongols remain tengri

Alright so challenge s to make it so that tengriism remains the domiennt religion of all the mongol khanates. How to do and what impact would that have.

I am afraid that's impossible.

The (Mongolian) 'tengriism' as it was did not discourage any 'tengriist' to accept/profess any other religion(s).

If the (Mongolian) tengriism is changed and transformed into a 'real' religion which demands loyalty and prohibits taking part in other religion's rituals... it is no longer the (Mongolian) tengriism.
 
Tengrism (which I just looked up and learned something about) could do something like what early Islam, 19th-20th century Shinto, and Judiasm did which have a greater degree of ethnocentrism without sacrificing it's essential character.

This would allow the Mongols to hold onto an exculsive identity and not allow them to be assimulated as easily, much like Jews, Parsi, and some Native American faiths.

Alternately, it could evolve a bit like Islam, basically "Mongolizing" people who want to be part of the 'winning team' much like Islam gradually became both more universal and "Arabizing" in assimulating a formerly Christian/Zoroastrian populations at the same time. It might also be a good religion for those who want to avoid being sucked into the competition between Islam and Christianity in the same way Khazars became Jews. It would, I think be more allowing of peoples keeping their own shamanistic practices and this also might be a big selling point.
 
Tengrism (which I just looked up and learned something about) could do something like what early Islam, 19th-20th century Shinto, and Judiasm did which have a greater degree of ethnocentrism without sacrificing it's essential character.

This would allow the Mongols to hold onto an exculsive identity and not allow them to be assimulated as easily, much like Jews, Parsi, and some Native American faiths.

Alternately, it could evolve a bit like Islam, basically "Mongolizing" people who want to be part of the 'winning team' much like Islam gradually became both more universal and "Arabizing" in assimulating a formerly Christian/Zoroastrian populations at the same time. It might also be a good religion for those who want to avoid being sucked into the competition between Islam and Christianity in the same way Khazars became Jews. It would, I think be more allowing of peoples keeping their own shamanistic practices and this also might be a big selling point.
Shinto is a good keyword here - Tengrism had ethnocentric elements built in to some degree at some stages, at least if my knowledge about earlier Turkic peoples is correct. Didn`t the Ashina clan have a totemic animal whose mythical origin was from the Holy Mountain? If the Mongols still believed something like this, Genghiz could easily have piled a scripturalization, institutionalization etc. of the faith on top of all his other groundbreaking reforms, couldn`t he?
 
Shinto is a good keyword here - Tengrism had ethnocentric elements built in to some degree at some stages, at least if my knowledge about earlier Turkic peoples is correct. Didn`t the Ashina clan have a totemic animal whose mythical origin was from the Holy Mountain? If the Mongols still believed something like this, Genghiz could easily have piled a scripturalization, institutionalization etc. of the faith on top of all his other groundbreaking reforms, couldn`t he?
The mongols did have such an origin, the wolf and the bird I think, they have a common historical origin, the belif in a supreme omnipotentant being, olktales and cultural memories, and a lore. If such is the case than I see no reason why just as he wrote the history of the mongol ppeople, genghis decided to also have shamans write down in a corpus the tales, stories, and religious tenets of tengriism.
 
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