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520 Sendenjav Dulamlanguage when the motif of this tale was transferred. It is more interestingthat Khalkh people in the Gobi area call Silk Road (Route de la soie), whichconnects East and the West as a “Road of Ass-eared King”. Mongols usuallycall it as “Gund road.” This shows us that from the period of ancient Hunsand Hellenes there was a trade road, by which not only commodities, butalso motifs of myths and fairytales were exchanging.According to Albert Hermann “Kingdoms in the Arrow Oasis hadvery important location in the sense of business, because the Silk Roadtrade route, which connects China, India, Iran and Greece, went throughtheir territories, and Ptolemeus, an ancient scholar of geography knew it”.(Grousset 1999: 6) As a result of the turbulent era in first millennium ofAD many tribes migrated, all carrying their ideas, literature and exchangingthem with each other. According to Denis and Jettmar, the northern andsouthern trade routes and new route along the River Indus were major SilkRoad routes. (Heissig 1997: 483) Besides these migrations and wars itis clear that the wise men, who mastered their own cultures and literature,were exchanging motifs of their mythological thinking. When writingabout Attila, the gothic historian Jornandez said that he had a Greek manOnejes, Roman Oreste, and a German Edeko as his writers. (Grousset1985: 123)In conclusion, we can argue that some of characters and motifs ofGreek tales had a great influence on Mongol tales during the era of ancientHellens and Huns, because of their direct or indirect relationship. Greektales were localized among Turks and Mongols from the time of Hun’sconquest and Silk Road trade route as a way of exchanging commodities aswell as intellectual heritage.Bibliography:Apollodorus 1963, The library with an English translation by Sir J.G. Frazer,Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, two volumes, London: WilliamHeinemann New York: G.P. Putnam`s sons.