Daichsun Tngri, also known as Dayisud Tngri and Dayičin Tngri, is a

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"of a protective function" to whom captured enemies were sometimes sacrificed. One of the equestrian deities within the Mongolian pantheon of 99

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, Dayisun Tngri may appear as a mounted warrior. Some of his characteristics may be the result of the "syncretistic influence of Lamaism" (

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); the

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composed invocations to this deity.

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