Could the Asena story be a reflection of Turks meeting with Bulan-Koba Scythians in the Altai mountains and merging with them? It's there where the Gökturks came from.
Close. Turks came from satan who bred with humans to create the Satanic turkic race. Filled with the values of greed, sadism, pride, love of torture, theft, deception, murder. To introduce chaos and destruction into the world.
>>18554000Ashina being an Iranic word related to horses is so transparently obvious you'd have to be a Turkish nationalist to deny it, so yes. See Asii, Asioi, the Mongolized form Asud, or the Indic cognate Asva