Esege Malan tengri is a central nodal character in the Buryat religious and mythological tradition, representing the supreme power in the Uranian pantheon. In his image, a hierarchical filiation can be traced between the ancient Mongolian Huhe Munhe tengri 'Blue Eternal Sky' and himself as the son of this transcendent sky deity, who personified the fatherly masculinity on a cosmic scale. Being a Buryat modification of the concept of the sky [Rinchen, 1975, pp. 191-192], the name Esege Malan tengri, literally meaning "Father Bald Sky", and figuratively- "Father Clear (Cloudless) sky", reflects an earlier stage of the Tengri ideas of the Buryat Mongol ancestors. Dyaus 'shining, daytime sky' and the synonymous theonym Zeus 'bright sky', representing the personified sky gods of the Indo-European circle [Myths of the peoples of the world, 1991, p. 417, 463].) The word Esege contains the theologeme of God the father, revealing in this respect a typological similarity at the level of the supreme deity with a number of well-known gods: Sumerian An 'sky', Papai 'father' - the head of the Scythian pantheon, and, finally, a classic example in the person of Zeus-the father of gods and people in Greek mythology. As for the Malan onym, it should be noted that a number of scholars cite its semantic connection with the name of Milian tengri, one of the most revered deities in the pantheon of medieval Mongols. He is mentioned first in the list of gods contained in the collection of cult texts "Altan debter", used in Ordos during the rite of sacrifice to the spirit of Genghis Khan. Milian tengri is called "the great deity of heaven who gave life to all things", who is entitled to the greatest number of splashes-libations - 99 from the milk of 99 white mares (Zhamtsarano, 1961, p. 211). There is also a translation of the Milian theonym as "smooth", which figuratively correlates with the concept of "bald, bald". Mongolian scholar B. Rinchen believes that milian is a phonetic variant of ... Read more