Turkic mythology embraces
Tengriist and
Shamanist traditions as well as all cultural and social subjects being a nomad folk. Later, especially after
Turkic migration some of the myths were decorated with Islamic symbols. It has many common points with Aegean and Anatolian mythologies (Greek and Hittite) as well as Mongol mythology. Turkic mythology was influenced by other local mythologies. For example, in
Tatar mythology elements of Finnic and Indo-European myth co-exist. Subjects from Tatar mythology include
Äbädä,
Alara.
Süräle,
Sekä,
Pitsen,
Tulpar, and
Zilant. Besides
Buddhism, Turkic mythology was influenced by
Zoroastrianism and
Manichaeism.