Jack Weatherford

And the banner after death contains the soul of the person.

And so she raced around, and they were a little bit nervous, and so they camped for one night, and they waited until it was dark.

Then they took off.

And this time, one of the friends of the family came running out to try to stop them, and they killed him.

And Temüjin cried.

He was a little boy, eight years old.

There was nothing he could do.

He was just a little boy.

And now that family is left there on the step, four children, possibly five already,

Xochitl, the other woman with two children, they're all left there to die on the steppe.

When the winter comes, they will surely all die.

How do they make it through the winter?

Mother Erlun, in the words of the Secret History, she pulled her hat down over her head, she took her black stick, and she ran up and down the banks of the river, digging out roots

to feed the gullet of her brood.

She fed them through the winter.

She found foods digging up

whatever she could, finding whatever she could, everything she could.

And even at this young age, Temujin was already beginning to go out to collect things.

He could get fish.

He could do a few tasks to help feed the family.