[valkyrieanne]

Fascinating article. One thing I found interesting is that "tengu" is also the Japanese word for a sky bird/god.

In addition, the old Turkish color symbolism seems to have been used in a lot of fairy tales ancient and modern. I was especially intrigued by the north/black, east/blue, south/red, and west/white color symbols. In L. Frank Baum's modern fairy tale The Wizard of Oz, Oz's color scheme is similar: blue/East, yellow/West, red/South, and purple/North.

But back to the point at hand: what I got from the article is that the crescent moon/star image is an ancient one that goes back to the proto-Indo-European people of Central Asia thousands of years before the rise of Islam.

[Destro]

Turkish is related to Korean and Japanese. Barbarian invasions and migrations brought them to the civilized West.

[Destro]

The star and crecent is the symbol if Islam - its cross if you will- origins probably with the pagan goddess Ishtar.

[a_Turk]

The moon, the sun and Destro's all seeing (*) blind eye.

:)))