obnoxion wrote:TheQizilbash wrote:Salute to all folks. Technically I have no religion of choice since my religion is totally hereditary which comes from paternal line with strict regulations and i'm a part of priesthood mechanism. I'm an adherent of and unorthodox form of Shamanism(unlike Orthodox Mongolian version) called Alevism. Some calls it Islam due to statehood policies, but it is not. Ancient God "Tengri" of our Shamanism evolved into an Abrahamic form, but preachers are not in Abrahamic forms. Preserving an entity despite a millenia of oppression and persecution is not so easy.
Welcome to out forum! I've just leartn about Alevism a few days ago (from Ensi-Lugal), and i'm very, very interrested about it. I'd love to find out more about it very quickly. Could you recommend any reliable resources on Alevism in the internet?
Thanks obnoxion, it was Ensi-Lugal who invited me to forum. I will try to recommend you some sources about Alevism. But some of internet sources may be quite contaminated by Islamic assimilationist policies or Shia contaminated sources. My humble opinion is to not take them serious.
http://www.revers-sun.fi/english/tengriism.html
You can trace roots of Alevism in Tengriism since Tengri is still part of us.
Also most sources in internet can inform you about sociological sides of Alevism because it also became a sociological+educational problem recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4BYBBCAZ8M
Some sources can mark us as "Shamanic Muslims". It can sound more accurate. But still i do not find Muslim-part impressive because we do not worship 3 or 5 times like Sunni or Shia Muslims. In general, there is no offical mechanism to provide control over Alevism or Alevis and i'm pretty sure it will never be in future. Because unorthodox kind of heathenry makes the control of Alevism harder.
No Alevi wants to state openly, or very few Alevis know about evolving gods issues. Lets make something clear. Divinity of Altaic God Tengri in fact never died but evolved into an Abrahamic one, a different kind of trinity called Allah-Mohammad-Ali. But Ali was the most superstitious among themselves. Hence the classic Tengri the sky-celestal God evolved into Ali the human-Tengri.
http://www.belgeler.com/blg/16rx/sorgul ... zi-alevi-s
This article written in Turkish, i couldn't find the English written but it was the most controversial article on Alevism on Elazığ(Eastern Anatolia) Alevis in general. The article says, Ali became the Tengri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0mYNQT89VA
The video about Tengriist roots of Alevism, but as i stated before i'm a part of priesthood and even as a hereditary priest it took my years to understand this fact.