Ergenekon or Ergeneqon (Persian: ارگنه قون; Ergene Qūn[1]) is the name of the place where Nekuz and Qiyan and their wives escaped to, and who were the original Mongols in Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh written by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani at the beginning of the 14th century.[2][3][4] In the 17th century, Abulghazi Bahadur, who was a descendant of Shiban and the khan of the Khanate of Khiva from 1643–63, mentioned Ergenekon as the Mongolian creation myth in his work named Shajara-i turk (Genealogy of the Turk).[3][4] Some Turkish researchers claim its Turkic origins with similarities between the creation myths of Göktürks (Bozkurt Destanı: Chinese texts and Turkish translations) and the Ergenkon epic.[4] The first individual to compare Abulghazi Bahadur’s Ergenekon epic with the creation myth of the Göktürks was Joseph de Guignes,[5] however, the respective creation myths of the Göktürks and Mongols are completely different from one another.[6] According to the Turkish mythology, Ergenekon is the name of the legendary valley, which according to Turkic mythology was a place of refuge in which the Turks were trapped for four centuries until a blacksmith melted some rocks and opened a gate so that a gray wolf called Börteçine could lead them out.[7][8][9][10] Since then a New Year’s ceremony is celebrated commemorating the legendary ancestral escape from Ergenekon.[11] Ergenekon fits what is written in Chinese sources about the origins of the Göktürks (Epic of Asena: Chinese texts and Turkish translations)