Jack Weatherford

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

But I did betray you when my people fought against you.

And you will always know that.

And you will never completely trust me.

I will be like a louse underneath the collar of your tunic.

I will be like a thorn in the lapel of your dell.

He said, kill me without shedding my blood.

Let me die.

And if you do,

take my remains up to a high place and bury me, and I will be the guard, I will be the protector for you and your people forever.

So, they

Obviously, Temüjin did not participate in the killing, but he ordered the killing.

It's not specified how he was killed without shedding the blood, but the Mongols had several ways, because the most honorable way to die was without shedding blood.

The blood contains part of the soul, and if you lose it, you're losing your soul before you die.

So they usually wrapped them up in felt carpets,

and then beat them to death or trampled them to death with horses, something like that.

There are a couple other methods, but I think that's probably the method by which Jamukha was killed.

And so he was killed, and then Tamujin had—or Chinggis Khan had his remains taken up and buried in a high place.

This is over near Tuva, which is today part of Russia.

But until the 20th century, it was a part of Mongolia, the Tuvan people, very, very close culturally to the Mongols.

He had become very practical at this point,

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