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CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
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CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A. (Continued from p. 95.)
sons, who began to talk together, and to suggest Having discarded the earlier part of the that their guest, the boy Makhali, might know genealogy of the Mongol Imperial house as something of the paternity of the new arrivals; really belonging to the Turks, we will resume whereupon their mother, who was cooking some our story at the point where we showed there hard-frozen mutton, summoned them to her, and was an actual break in the legendary descent. explained how during several nights a man of As we have seen the Saga makes Dobo Mergen a blonde complexion had entered her yurt or marry Alun Goa.
tent through the hole in its summit, and that The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi goes on to say that a ray of light which came from him penetrated once when Dobo was hunting on the hills
her womb, after which he disappeared in the Tokhochakh,' he met a man of the distriot Uri- sunlight in the guise of a yellow dog. “It is angka, who was cooking a stag which he had quite plain," she added, " that the three boys are killed. Dobo having asked him for some of it, of divine origin, and you cannot compare them he detached the offal for his own use, and pre- to ordinary people. When they become kings sented his guest with all the rest. Dobo tied and princes you will recognise this." Then it on his horse, and wended homewards. On telling them all to cling together, and relatthe way he met a poor beggar with his son. ing to them the world-famous parable of the The former said he belonged to the tribe of bundle of faggots, which when tied together Makhali Bayau. He asked him for the deer, could not be broken, while each individual offering his son in exchange for it. This was
stick was exceedingly frail, she died. This agreed to by Dobo, who accordingly took the is the story as told in the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi. boy home with him, and brought him up in The story, it will be seen, makes Budantsar, his house as his attendant. Ssanang Setzen, who is treated as the stem-father of the who mentions this boy, calls him Makhali of
Mongol Imperial house, the son of Alun Goa, the race or tribe Bayagod. The Bayagod and a divine father, and clearly establishes the are elsewhere named by him. They were fact which we argued in the former paper that doubtless the Bayant of Rashidu'd-din, who the Dobo Mergen and his ancestors are really says they were divided into two sections, the strangers to the pedigree of the Mongol Emperors Jida Bayaut living on the river Jida, doubtless which begins de novo with Alun Goa. The the tributary of the Selinga so called, and the story of the supernatural birth of her sons has Kehrun Bayaut living on the steppe or plain." its parallel in several other Eastern tales. The Abulgbazi has corrupted Kehrun into Mekrin. Siamese story of Sommonasodom, who was born The Bayaut were very probably a Turkish tribe of a maiden who had been fertilised by the According to the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi, after the sun, is a case in point. Elsewhere we have in death of Dobo Mergen, Alun Goa had three the sagas of the origin of the royal dynasties sons, named Bukhu Kataghi, Bukhatu Salji, among the northern frontagers of China several and Budantsar-the Bughu Khataki, Bughu parallels. Tan-che-ho-wi, the leader of the Saljigho and Budantsar Mong Khan of Ssanang Sianpi, was conceived by a widow, into whose Setzen.' This posthumous birth aroused the open mouth a thunderbolt entered while she was suspicions of Belgetei and Begontei, her older gazing upwards. A paokhi, the founder of the Probably some part of the Kentei chain.
or Soyots, called Uriangkut-Pisheh by Raabidu'd-din, and This name merely means 'woods'. The name Uriang. Uriangkhai to this day by the Chinese. They live between kut or 'woodmen' was however specifically applied to the Sayanian mountains and the Khanghai and Altai certain tribes, one of these, to which the famous Mongol chains on the river Tes, which flows into lake Ubea, and leader Sabutai Bebadur belonged, was the guardian of the Bachkus which falls into the Altan or Telezkoi lake.Chinghiz Khan's tomb. According to Rashidu'd-din this Asia Polyglotta, pp. 146 and 224. tribe was descended from those who came out of Irgeneh
Op. cit. p. 59.. Kun (Erdmann, op. cit. p. 195) by which, 98 we have seen, he • Op. cit. pp. 89, 183, and 251. means the Turke, and to this day the Turks of the Chulim Kehreh means a plain; Erdmann, Vollstandige Veber. are called Uriangkhai by their neigbbours, from living sicht, etc. p. 155. in woods, but the people referred to in the passage we • Op. cit. Ed. Desmaisons, p. 60. are discussing were probably the southern Samoyedes Op. cit. p. 59.
