In Divan-ı Luğat üt Türk, it is said (an animal of the type of rat, half an cubit long, hunts sparrows through the crevices of the walls, if thrown onto the sheep turns the meat of the sheep turns yellow, if thrown on the sleeping person, that person suffers from urinary arrest).

One of the mythological animals is the three-legged donkeys called (Gao-kerena) on the Caspian Sea coast.

Erlik Khan, the god of evil, has terrible beasts in the underworld (Pay Tengiz) called (Abra). According to the Shamans (Abra), they are also one of the protective spirits who are a vehicle between Ülgen and Erlik Han.

There is also a hedgehog named by the Shamans (Kamk), which lives on the edge of lakes in the hell of Batış, one of the sons of Erlik.

Snakes

Snakes had an important place in ancient Turkish mythology. However, the weather in which the Turks are harsh and cold gray meadows do not raise many snakes.

Later, the Turks, who came to the south and west, under the influence of changing the neighborhood, gave a wide place to the snake.

The first myth about the serpent and settled among the Keldanites through the Turks is as follows: Along with the cosmic realm, two great snakes, one female and one male, were created in Lakhmu and Lâkhamu.

Sculptures found during the excavations for the Sumerians and Elamites reveal horned snakes, snakes protecting the sacred tree, and large and horned snakes acting as gatekeepers; They are also in charge of guardianship with (Nin-Gishzida), the god of snakes by the Su-mers (Papsukal).

A big and voracious snake is mentioned in the story of Eti’s (Edimmu).

The serpent named tlluankaş was also among the Eti and Hittite legends.

For Volga Turks, the snake is an auspicious animal.

The Sumerian hero Gilgamesh, in order to attain eternal life, has lost the herb of life from the bottom of the sea to a snake. There are a few headed snakes in the Hittite legends (Enuma-Elis).

For the snake, one of the legends that came and settled among the Turks is said as follows in the first volume of Taberi.

A serpent was created, its head of pearl, body of red gold, eyes of ruby, it was commanded seven times to hug the great and sacred place, which is the highest layer of the heavens, and he, too.

This snake was so long that half of it still hangs from the top floor of the sky towards the ground, although it has been around seven times. This snake had seven hundred thousand faces on its four heads, a thousand mouths on each face, a thousand tongues on each mouth, and eighty thousand horns.

Animals such as elephants, monkeys and cats are mentioned in the mythology of hot regions.