Jack Weatherford

He was left behind.

So here's this young child, we don't know what age, but it could be around four or five, I think.

He was left behind, and as it turned out, some other people, the Taichung, found him, and then they kept him for a while, and eventually he was reunited with his father and mother.

And it's very odd to me that I never have any inkling of a spark of relationship much between the father and the son.

Because then when Timuchin is eight years old, his father decides to take him off to find a wife, which finding a wife in the Mongolian terms means you give the child to that family, or you give the boy to that family, and he will live with them, and they will raise him up, and they will train him the way they want before he can marry their daughter.

And so he's taking him off at age eight, but he didn't take the other son from the other wife, Bektar.

He was keeping him.

There was something about Temüjin having been lost once and found by the Tai Chiud and reunited with the family.

And now his father takes him off at age eight, and he was gonna take him to Erlun's family, but he never made it.

He stopped with another family.

It's sort of like the first family he came across.

And...

In the words of the secret history, it's sort of like instant love, that there was fire in his eyes and fire in her eyes.

And he saw this girl, Bershta, who was about nine years old, a little older, and he wanted to stay there with that family, according to the story.

And so the father left him there with that family.

But on the way home, the father decided he saw a drinking party and he decided to join him.

They were Tatars.

He hid his identity.

On the step, everybody kind of figures out who everybody is.

They figured out who he was.