Spring Endowment With the arrival of spring and mild weather, livestock is emancipated, but pasture grass is still usually rare. Animals typically give birth in the spring, however, despite these conditions. This is the busiest and hardest period for livestock breeders. There is the Lunar Month festival which celebrates the passing of winter safe and […]
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Oral Poetry Without Melodies
Spells and Incantation Spells and incantations are the forms of ancient folklore. They endeavour to achieve their ends through the supernatural powers of words, sounds, and gestures. Mongolian spells and incantations can be divided into ordinary and special forms. Ordinary spells and incantations are those that can be enchanted by anyone; special spells and incantations, […]
4 Marvels of Mongolian Language
The Mongolian language belongs to the Altaic language family, together with the Manchu and Tungus languages. There are today around seven thousand languages spoken on earth. They are divided into twenty-six language families. The Mongolian language has many dialects, including Mogol, Mongor, Dunsyan, Baoani, Shar Uigar, Daguur, Halimag, Ojrad, Buriad, Central Mongolian and Southern Mongolian. […]
Traditional Household and Economic Knowledge
Mongolian ger Mongolian ger originated and inherited from the ancient nomads,including Hünnü people. This is a portable structure that is easy to dismantle and erect and light to transport. There is good air-circulation and very good lighting by the sun. It is possible to get an orientation of a time according the increase or decrease of the sunlight […]
Folk Beliefs and Rituals
The Pendant of the Jade axe It was and is still a common tradition among Mongolians to embellish a baby’s rug, swaddling clothes and coats with various pendent which are deemed to be propitious for babies. These omens are precious stone, silver, copper-axe, bows and arrows, bells, models of felt-fox, shells, ankle-bones of stags, fangs […]
Traditional Measurement
Mongolians pay attention to all measurements in detail. There is a saying that one must measure seven times but cut once. The measurement of time Mongolian terms Present name Number Jaran (60 cycle) Jil (twelve months, year) Uliral (seasen) Sar (month) Doloo khonog (week) Khonog (night) Tsag Möch Khuvi Amisgal Year month (days) month (days) […]
Folk Meteorology
It is very interesting for the people who lead a sedentary life that Mongolians put horse pellets which are on a string of horse-tail hair and then hang this on the spoke of ger as a tool to predict the weather. Judging by its shrinkage and expansion we can say whether it will be rainy […]
Astronomical Knowledge
Occurrence of the Stars The moon and planets move above almost every livestock cant matter to include on a calendar. This moment is underbreeder’s head. Each herder knows the motions of the stood as testing visibility. The visibility and movements of moon and the planets. Our ancestors used to prognosticate the moon and the Pleiades […]
Folk Arithmetic and Mathematics
Folk Arithmetic and Mathematic The number of skins Are the same as the sum of numbers multiplied; The number of skins Show the number of missed arrows. Resolve this problem: How many arrows have scored a hit? How many skins were hit? How many arrows missed their target? Who can tell it? If you […]