Jack Weatherford

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

And supposedly, they poisoned him.

He got on his horse and was able to ride back home, but within a few days, he died.

So now, Temujin is off living with another family.

And somebody comes from his family, a family, not a relative, but a close person named Mongluk comes to get him, take him back.

And they make it through the winter.

They make it through the winter.

Mother Erlum, by now, she has four sons and one daughter.

I think the daughter had already been born or the daughter was going to be born not too long after that.

But they make it through the winter.

The spring comes, and of course, the clan is going to move to a new camp.

They go to spring camp from winter camp.

And they have a ceremony for the ancestors.

And they started the ceremony, but they did not tell Erlun.

And so she came and she was angry that she had been left out.

The old women said, you're the one for whom we do not have to call.

We will feed you if you come, but we do not have to take care of you.

Letting her know that as a captive woman, she was not a real wife in their view.

And that was really the signal that when they moved camp, they were not taking her with them.

And they packed up and they took her animals.

They took the animals, but at that moment, she still had one horse for a moment, and she jumped on the horse, and she took the banner of her husband, and she raced around the people.

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