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Since this shitty weather forces me inside, it's time to do some constructive stuff here. So let's talk about deers for a minute, as a backturn to this post: >>/25118/ Curious Turkic symbolism doesn't include deers since it was a fundamental part of the steppe folks art and spiritual culture at least up to the Huns and old Hungarian tradition is one of the links at the end of that chain. Our word for deer is szarvas which means "horned one", a substitute peripharse instead an actual name to express it's sacral nature sames with wolf, farkas = "the one with tail". One of our two origin myths includes the deer in it's "allegorical toolset", twice. First as a totemic progenitor: the mother of Hunor and Magor (Magyar) was called Enéh (Turkish: inek) which means female deer, doe, and it is still used in our language as ünő with same meaning. The second instance of the deer - this time a stag - in this story is a magical entity who leads the hunting brothers to west. The deer wears the Sun and the Moon and the stars on his antlers, it might be a transformed shaman or a godlike creature, maybe an allegory of the sky of some sort or our version of Tengri himself - if we had one.