'Ötüken forest'[1] or 𐰵𐱅𐰜𐰤:𐰘𐰼, romanized: Ötüken jer, lit.
It was mentioned by Bilge Khagan in the Orkhon inscriptions as "the place from where the tribes can be controlled".
A force called qut was believed to emanate from this mountain, granting the local potentate the divine right to rule all the Turkic tribes.
[4] Although never identified precisely, Ötüken probably stretched "from the Khangai Range of Central Mongolia to the Sayan Mountains of Tuva, at the centre of which is the Orkhon Valley",[5] which for centuries was regarded as the seat of the imperial power of the steppes.
Ötüken (اتوكان)[6] in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk:[7] Name of a place in the deserts of Tatār near Uighur.The Tonyukuk inscriptions clearly show the sacred importance of the region, as evidenced by the statement of Tonyukuk:[8] If you stay in the land of the Ötüken, and send caravans from there, you will have no trouble.