Jack Weatherford

It's called coming anda.

Anda is more than a friend.

A friend is like in the language, and there are several different types of friendship, but anda is a friendship that's beyond a friendship.

It's something for life.

And they swore that they would be there forever to protect each other, to help each other in every moment.

And they exchanged knuckle bones.

So each one of them had the knuckle bone of a roebuck, a deer.

Knuckle bones are used in these games that they play, but it's also used to forecast the future.

You can roll them around and all.

And it's very strange.

On the ice, I will say...

In the wintertime in Mongolia, it can be up to 50 degrees below zero.

And it doesn't really matter at that point whether it's even Celsius or Fahrenheit or what it is.

But you slide something across the ice and it's just absolutely smooth like silk and it goes on for a long way.

And if you put your ear down to the ice...

you hear this celestial sound that is unlike any sound on the earth.

It's just like the angels are singing under the ice.

So once they've sworn this relationship of Anda, then a couple years later, they swear it again, but this time they're slightly older boys, and they have bows and arrows, and so they exchange arrows with each other.

In fact, the text is very specific that Jamukha took the horn, cut it off of a two-year-old calf,

And he whittled it down, and then he drilled a hole into it in order to make a whistling arrow.