The Myth of Mongolian Cultural Origin

there are many myths of cultural origin among mongolians.

for example, in the myth of the origin of the fire, it is said that there was no fire in the world; humans look to the sky and see countless fires lit in the sky and try to steal it back.

so people send swallows to steal the fire.

swallows fly into the sky from the skylights of a family, and when they fall into the fire, they fly away, and the housewife finds out.

the housewife cuts the tail of the swallows with fire, and the swallows break out, and they fly back to the earth, and there is fire in the house, and the swallows' tails become today.

when there was a fire, the lower world tried to steal the fire, sending moths to steal it.

however, the moths steal the fire, which is a blue flame without heat, and the moths repeat the fire.

the moths are said to be fighting for the purpose of the fire.

this myth is a very graphic reflection of the mental characteristics of the mongols — in the senses of the three religions — medium and lower — in mongolia, life in the upper and lower spheres is the same as in reality, living in a mongolian bag, using fire shears.

in fact, the mongolians imagined and created the world of the sky and the underground in accordance with human life.

the most distinctive mongol instrument.

the myth of the origin of the horse-heading is as follows: the death of the mother of burhan bagsi, and the grief of burhan bagsi.

he wanted to create an instrument to get rid of grief, but he couldn't do it.

so he went to the declarant to ask why.

the divulgator told burhan bagsi: “you should make a box of wood with snake skin on it, string it with a pony tail and bow it with a bending tree, and you can make a violin.” burhan bagsi did what the divulgist had said, but the music was always out of tune and went to the divulgators to ask why.

he said, “it is the devil who took your mother's soul, and he should have told you.” burhan bagsy went to the devil.

the devil told him, "you rub your fragrance on the pony's tail, you make a good sound." burhan bagsi did what he said, and eventually became a horse head.

ibid., p.

167.

in the mongolian tradition, the origins of music, songs and stories are all related to death.

for example, in myths about the origin of the story, it is said that after the death of a blind man called tazhva, the soul leaves its body, travels through hell, gets stories from hell and brings them back to the earth。