Erlik

[1] From the underworld, Erlik brings forth death, plague and evil spirits to torment humans and take their souls into his realm.

Erlik has already been mentioned in the Orkhon writings and shows a consistent pattern as the lord of the underworld among Turkic belief systems.

[2] In Mongolian, Erlik is referred to as Erleg or Yerleg, and in Hungarian mythology he is equivalent to Ördög.

In Turkic mythology, Erlik was the deity of evil, darkness, lord of the lower world and judge of the dead.

[4] He wants to be equal to Ulgen, he makes his own land and was sent to the prison at the 9th layer of the earth and became opposed to the upper world, the realm of light.

According to the Khakas, Erlik resides in the deepest underworld in a palace of copper with furniture made of gold.

[7] According to another legend, recorded by Vasily Radlov, God ordered the first human to dive into the primordial water and remove a handful of soil from the bottom of the sea.

Kayra, who designs the world in this legend, cast the first human away from the heavenly realm as means of punishment and thus named him Erlik.

If they do not sacrifice to him, he catches the dead bodies of the people that he killed and takes them away to this lower world and then makes them his slaves.

So, especially in the Altays, when sickness appears, people become scared of Erlik and make many animal sacrifices to him.

[3] In the prayers of shamans, Erlik is described as a monster, having the face and teeth of a pig combined with a human body.