Jack Weatherford

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025 podcast

And it's a ceremony in front of the whole family.

we can't say tribe, it's not big enough yet for a tribe, but a whole clan that's there.

And then Jamukha takes off a gold belt, which actually he had stolen from the market at some point, and where on earth they got a gold belt, I don't know.

He took off a gold belt and he put it on Temüjin, and then Temüjin gave him a mayor who had never had a fold, had never given birth,

And it was an unusual mayor who had a little growth on the front of her head, which they called a horn.

So it was an unusual gift.

And I don't—it has meaning, but I don't know all the meanings behind it.

You know, it's sort of odd to me.

But the golden belt, you can kind of sort of think about it in different ways.

But the golden belt—the belt for the Mongol man is really the sign of manhood, right?

And in fact, this belt of pus, a woman was often then and even now called person without a belt, because that's how they were at that time.

Today, women wear belts, of course, but they still use the word pusqui, pusqui, with no belt.

So it's a very important symbol of manhood.

So he gave that tamudjind, and they celebrated.

And then the words of the secret history,

They slept apart under the same blanket apart from the other group, and they were happy together.

And then when the baby was born,

Temujin named the baby , which means visitor.

Some people say, well, it's because the child was really the market child.

Other people say, no, it's because he was a visitor on the territory of Jamuk at that time.

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