What was the original religion of the Khazars before they converted to one of the 3 major religions.?

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Anything else you care to tell me about the Khazars also might be interesting but no cut and paste please. Thanks.

I have no idea what you're getting at about Judaism. I'm neither Jewish, nor anti-Semitic, so you can stop it right now Xamanator! If you have prejudices, I would appreciate it if you kept them to yourself. Thank you.
The Kazars converted to the 3 major religions, not just Juddaism. My original faulty assumption was in another question months ago.

Answer 1

Originally, the Khazars practiced traditional Turkic shamanism, focused on the sky god Tengri, but were heavily influenced by Confucian ideas imported from China, notably that of the Mandate of Heaven. The Ashina clan were considered to be the chosen of Tengri and the kaghan was the incarnation of the favor the sky-god bestowed on the Turks. A kaghan who failed had clearly lost the god's favor and was typically ritually executed. Historians have sometimes wondered, only half in jest, whether the Khazar tendency to occasionally execute their rulers on religious grounds led those rulers to seek out other religions.
The Khazars worshipped a number of deities subordinate to Tengri, including the fertility goddess Umay, Kuara, a thunder god, and Erlik, the god of death.

Answer 2

Sky Worship. Before the Abrahamaic faiths steppe cultures tended to worship the biggest thing they knew in the world. The Endless sky.

So Khazars migrated to Europe the same time the Bulgars and the Pechenegs did setting up on the Black Sea. Jewish settlers went there because these Turks didn't discriminate against Jews. Anyways they assimilated each other and soon due to economic reasons ( the Jews could trade with both Muslim and Christian clients) they became fervent Jews.

No one is sure what happened to these Jewish Turkic people

Answer 3

You're very coy about 'Judaism', aren't you? I would suppose they practised some sort of shamanism. In any case, it was only a few of the nobles who converted. DNA research has exploded the idea, popularised by Arthur Koestler and taken up by Arab Jew-haters, that the eastern or Ashkenazy Jews have any other than semitic ancestry.

Answer 4

Shamanism?