耶律阿保机

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本文检讨了辽太祖耶律阿保机的降生神话、始祖神话以及一些重要的契丹习俗，发现它们大都能在摩尼降生神话及摩尼教教义和神话中找到原型或依据。

Close scrutiny of Khitan customs and myths about the birth of Yel ü Abaoji ( Emperor Taizu of the Liao ) and other Khitan ancestors , reveals that most of them derive from Manichaean myths and doctrines .
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后梁贞明二年（916），契丹族首领耶律阿保机凭借强大的军事力量，击败了的剌葛、迭剌等人，在龙化州称天皇帝，国号契丹。

In the 2nd year of Zhenming of the Later Liang ( 916 ) , Yelu Abaoji , the chief of the Khitan Tartars , declared himself emperor and named his state Khitan , after having defeated other tribes like Cige and Died .
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辽国是中国历史上以契丹族为主体建立的王朝，都城上京临潢府（今内蒙古巴林左旗南），其创建者为耶律阿保机（汉名亿）。

Liao was a regime dominated by the Khitan . Its capital was Linhuangfu in Shangjing ( south of present-day Bairin Left Banner in Inner Mongolia ) , and its founder was a man called Yelu Abaoji ( the Han name was Yi ) .