Uryankhayets to the Mongols were probably same as Druids to the Celts. They were the spiritual elite.
There is so much history and mystery surrounding Mongolian Burkhan Khaldun.
Why has this place been forbidden for so many ages?
Burkhan sounds similar to Vulcan, Roman god of fire.
Burkhan Khaldun is an ancient extinct volcano located in modern Mongolia.
The word Burkhan serves in the Buddhist literature of the Mongols for the designation of the Buddha, however Berthold Laufer in his research about etymology of the word Burkhan insists that “burkhan is a term peculiar to the ancient shamanism of Siberia, and was diffused there over an extensive area long before the introduction of Buddism.” M. A. Castren noted a word burkan has the significance of ‘God’ and derived from Buryat burkhan. Berthold Laufer says: “In the same manner as among the Gold, so also among the Mongol, burkhan is a fixed term of their ancient shamanistic religion which still flourishes among the Buryat. Generally speaking, burkhan is a synonym of tengeri (or tengerin) or zayan, the chief deities of the Buryat, to the number of ninety nine, each known under his proper name.”