JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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At last appeared before the great khan his fourth and youngest son Dzalar Khung Taidshi, who
happened to sit before him squattingly, which manner of sitting denotes haste and tending to go far.
(yarbol, yabon so =if thou makest haste sit squattingly. Prov.) The great khan appointed him to be the
emperor of Russia and rule over all nations of the false doctrine (ters boro nomtan) until Maydere’s
Kalpa arrival, when he shall accept with all his people the yellow religion (Buddhism). He gave him the
nine pronged white flag, a round cup, a round seal and the well hitting sorcerer’s ax (Almosin süke),
astonishing him by instructing not to harm with his numberless army the people of the Mongolian race
(Monghol idzaghortan). The instruction Tschingis Khan gave his second son Khung Taidshi the khan of
Ölöts is interesting: “When the various foes shall attack thee, thou must but pray to Khormuzda tenger,
shake thy red flag and thou shall rejoice at having no enemies. Thy people are indeed bad, but thou must
make up thy mind, acquire all kind of science and knowledge, gather the wise and sage about thee,
endeavour to multiply welth and instruments, patronize the religion and chiefly follow my path and
then thou will have success. During my life I turned the stones into men, the rocks into horses; I turned
to the waterless places into watered ones, the plains into mountains and the mountains into plains; I took
the gold and silver snares from the heaven and I turned the sunless regions into sunny ones, the
moonless regions into moony ones; I turned the fireless regions into such as having fire; I make the far
countries near and near foes I make far; I threw the rocks big as mountains like a play bone; if thou will
follow my example, thou shall do all these!”
As the lower class of lamas (one of whom was my leader too) are nearly replacing and representing
the ancient shamans, I was curious to hear about the fortune telling by means of the sheep shoulder
blade (scapula Mong. dalo). Hereupon brought my teacher to me an unburnt scapula (tsagan dalo, white
scapula) and a burnt one (tülesen dalo) and pointed out on the first one the characteristic marks and the
fine splits on the second one, out of which the dalatshi kün (soothsayer) reads like out of an opened book
not only the future but the cases of theft, too. He also told me the history of this well-paid practice.
According to his recital, a 120 years old anchoret (arshi-in dayantshi) called Otshir was the first who
taught partially this art to the 82 years old Naran Dshirghalang (Sun-delight). This in his turn passed
over his knowledge to his son Sara Mandal’ (Moon disk) and sent him to Tibet, China and Manjury to
learn the languages and sciences of those people, too. As the tan was setting out the father burnt a
scapula and looking at the splits found that his son would encounter two cases of danger on his journey;
firstly a Tibetian lama would try to destruct him by the Kharialin tarni (dharani of malediction), but by
throwing it into the fire he would be saved and the head of the Tibetian lama would split into three
parts; then when he finished his studies on his returning he would encounter the second danger by the
poison of the Manju governor but he would meet a supernatural virgin and she would save him. The son
went away and all happened as his father had foretold him. He met with the virgin called Naran Ghoa
(beautiful like Sun), who was the daughter of the 120 years old lama, Otshir and had in her possession all
books of the science both of burnt and unburnt scapula. After the mutual recital of their fate they become
friends and continued their journey together. As they were returning to Mongolia passing the border,
the Manju governor invited them, they accepted the invitation but before entering the governor’s house,
the Dakini girl put her jewel into the mouth of her companion and so when asked by the governor about
his success he could not speak and when food and drink was offered could not taste them. The governor
came to the conclusion that “Sara Mandal” was already made useless for his nation and let them go
freely. Thus they returned safely to Mongolia, where they spread out their science.
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