Are there any Shamanistic beliefs which are still believed and respected by todays generations of modern Turkic nations? I know that some Turkic nations are still Shamanists, but I mean in the Muslim Turkic communuties, from Uighurs to Turkey Turks...

I heard that not cutting your nails at night, not chewing gum at night and also not looking a mirror in darkness are some of these cultural inheritances of thousands of years...

I hate the name "Ergenekon" when it's used for the creation myth of the Gök Türks. Ergenekon is the name of the Mongol Creation Myth and the CM of the Gök Türks was surely different from Ergenekon though both myths are still quiet similar to each other.

Anyway; there are still Teñrist elements in Turkish Islam; such as respecting the dead, constructing large tombs for important people, tying colored things to trees, etc...

    hmm...who would look at a mirror in the dark?

Yeah, building great tombs is one of them. Just look at it. Turks build two great tombs for Ataturk and Turgut Özal (Well, I dont think he deserved one...).

And about Nevruz, it is the beginning of the new year in old Turkish 12 animals calender, and it is still celebrated.

Ergenekon or Ergene-khun belongs to the Mongols, not to the Turks. The Turkic peoples in general didn't have a common myth like this but the Gök Türks had a similar myth which is recorded in Chinese sources. Some weirdo 20th century Turkish statesmen decided that Ergenekon belongs to the Turks so they made us celebrate it in the Coming of the Spring festivals.

Funny thing is that the Mongolian Ergene-khun or the Mongolian Creation Myth is probably a different version of the Gök Türk creation myth but after all these two are different myths and they should not be confused.

Besides, the Gök Türk creation myth belonged only to the Gök Türks, not to all the other Turkic peoples. The Gaoche, Uyghurs, Qïrghïz, Oghuz, etc had their own creation myths or legends like that.

Well actually Nevruz/Navroz/whateverthehellitis is an Iranic thing; however, what we celebrate is the Coming of the Spring festival and Nevruz is just one of the many such festivals which were and are being celebrated by countless peoples in the World. The Romans, Greeks, Chinese, Iranians, Turkics, etc etc all had their own festival and Nevruz was the Iranian one. When we Turks started contacting with the Islamic World, the name of the Turkic festival was changed to Nevruz and today the Turkic World celebrates it's festival with the name of the Iranian festival.

The Oguz people have their own myths of creation, like the myth of creation from a tree and a male wolf.

But I think Ergenekon was a common myth btw Turkic people and Mongols, maybe not Oguz...

Yeah, sure :

this link is a fine Turkish source:

http://tt.baskent.edu.tr/turkmitolojisi/oguz.htm - http://tt.baskent.edu.tr/turkmitolojisi/oguz.htm

Who were those statesmen? It seems like they were influential on all around Central Asia and Turkic republics. Very interesting.

em , I have deep clear double eyelid, so i must have at least 20% blood of Tujue.

I sometimes have a anger without any reason, wild as Tujue they once had.

we, mongolians are shamanist too.

offically we're buddist,  but it mixed with shamanism.  enough different then tibetians.

we have that "nail... " words too.

now days, shamans live in western and northern mongolia, i born in western mongolia and our familly had one "woman" (shaman), who tells/helps/reads our future.

i think buriats tuvas are shamanist too.