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Ferdinand Ossendowski

Who and where you hear about in Ferdinand Ossendowski's account: 34 places, 29 people, 6 peoples and 23 terms, each with the name it goes by today, in the order the narration reaches them.

Places

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  1. Yenisei

    Енисей

    The great Siberian river of the book's opening: Ossendowski's flight begins in the forests along its upper valley, in a winter den dug above its banks.

    First heard in Chapter 1: Into the ForestsWikipedia

  2. Transbaikalia

    TransbaikalЗабайкалье

    The Cossack and Buriat country east of Lake Baikal, where Baron Ungern fought the Bolsheviki before Djam Bolon's invitation drew him into Mongolia.

    First heard in Chapter 2: The Secret of My Fellow TravelerWikipedia

  3. Minnusinsk

    MinusinskМинусинск

    The south-Siberian town on the Yenisei near which the escape across the river began. Now spelled Minusinsk.

    First heard in Chapter 6: A River in TravailWikipedia

  4. Urianhai

    TuvaУрианхай (Тува)

    The Soyot country beyond the Sayans, a land of forest, swamp and sacred passes through which the fugitives fled south into Mongolia. The old Russian 'Urianhai' is today the Tuva Republic.

    First heard in Chapter 6: A River in TravailWikipedia

  5. Sayans

    Sayan MountainsСаяны

    The wall of forested mountains between Siberia and Urianhai; beyond their swamps and passes the fugitives were out of Bolshevik territory.

    First heard in Chapter 7: Through Soviet SiberiaWikipedia

  6. Tuba

    Туба

    A tributary of the Yenisei below Minnusinsk; following it east toward the Sayans was 'the most dangerous part of our course,' its valley thick with villages that fed the Red partisans.

    First heard in Chapter 7: Through Soviet Siberia

  7. Amyl

    Амыл

    A branch of the Tuba; the fugitives worked up its populous valley into the Sayan foothills on the way to Urianhai.

    First heard in Chapter 7: Through Soviet Siberia

  8. Seybi

    A river in the Urianhai forests beyond the Sayans, reached by hired guides and hard swamp crossings on the first stage of the flight toward Mongolia.

    First heard in Chapter 9: To the Sayans and Safety

  9. Tannu Ola

    Tannu-Ola MountainsТагна уул

    The snowbound range dividing Urianhai from Mongolia, crossed by the fugitives on their way south out of Soviet reach.

    First heard in Chapter 10: The Battle on the SeybiWikipedia

  10. Kosogol

    Lake KhövsgölХөвсгөл нуур

    The deep mountain lake of northern Mongolia that the Mongols hold in dread; the party crossed its booming, cracking spring ice below Khathyl. It is Lake Khövsgöl.

    First heard in Chapter 10: The Battle on the SeybiWikipedia

  11. Kobdo

    KhovdХовдIn 1 other book ›

    The fortress town of far-western Mongolia. The book recalls its storming and burning by the Mongols in 1912, when the Chinese garrison fell and the survivors perished in the winter mountains. Today's Khovd.

    First heard in Chapter 11: The Barrier of Red PartisansWikipedia

  12. Urga

    UlaanbaatarӨргөөIn 6 other books ›

    Mongolia's capital, the monastic city of the Living Buddha (its great monastery is the 'Ta Kure'), taken by Baron Ungern in February 1921. Ossendowski's escape ends here, in audiences with the Baron and the blind Bogdo. Renamed Ulaanbaatar in 1924.

    First heard in Chapter 11: The Barrier of Red PartisansWikipedia

  13. Soldjak

    Салчак

    One of the Soyot principalities of Urianhai (the Salchak country), into which the herding families drove their cattle to sit out the fighting.

    First heard in Chapter 12: In the Country of Eternal Peace

  14. Khathyl

    HatgalХатгал

    The Russian colony at the southern end of Lake Kosogol, abandoned in panic as Red detachments crossed the border. Now Hatgal.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  15. Muren Kure

    MörönМөрөн

    A Russian settlement beside a big Lamaite monastery sixty miles south of Kosogol. It grew into Mörön, today the capital of Khövsgöl Province.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  16. Irkutsk

    ИркутскIn 1 other book ›

    The Bolshevik-held Siberian capital west of Lake Baikal; Red detachments from its district crossed the Mongolian border to Khathyl and hunted the refugee columns.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  17. Van Kure

    BulganВангийн хүрээ

    The monastery town on the road to Urga where Ossendowski moved among Kazagrandi's officers and the emissaries of Baron Ungern. Vangiin Khüree stood where the city of Bulgan is today.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the Devil

  18. Ulankom

    UlaangomУлаангом

    A monastery and trading town of far northwestern Mongolia, one of the outposts through which Communist agitators and Chinese intrigue filtered in the book's rumor mill. Today Ulaangom, capital of Uvs Province.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  19. Kiakhta

    KyakhtaХиагтIn 1 other book ›

    The old tea-road town on the Siberian-Mongolian border, in Red hands during the book's events. Now Kyakhta.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  20. Jassaktu Khan

    Zasagt Khan aimagЗасагт хан аймаг

    One of the four great princely domains (aimaks) of Khalkha, stretching southwest of Uliassutai; its desert marches lay on the planned route of the doomed dash for Tibet.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the Devil

  21. Kansu

    Gansu

    The Chinese province wedged between Mongolia and Tibet; the plan was to strike 'as rapidly as possible' through sixty miles of it on the way south. Today's Gansu.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  22. Tibet

    Төвд

    The forbidden Buddhist land south of the deserts: Ossendowski's first plan of escape aimed straight across it for India, and its Pontiffs and mysteries shadow the whole book.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  23. Gobi

    ГовьIn 5 other books ›

    The waterless gravel plain across southern Mongolia, entered in the western marches on the abortive ride toward Tibet. 'Gobi' is the Mongolian word for such a desert.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  24. Uliassutai

    UliastaiУлиастайIn 5 other books ›

    The last Chinese fortress-town of western Mongolia and the book's central stage: months of siege-like tension between Chinese commissioners, Mongol princes, White refugees and freebooting colonels play out here. Today it is Uliastai.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  25. Narabanchi Kure

    Нарваньчин хүрээ

    The 'Blessed Monastery' northwest of Uliassutai, refuge of dismissed Saits and anxious princes. Here, in the lamas' telling, the King of the World appeared in 1890 and left his prophecy of the coming half-century.

    First heard in Chapter 15: The March of Ghosts

  26. Koko Nor

    Qinghai LakeХөх нуур

    The great 'Blue Lake' of the Tibetan borderland, on the planned route of the winter dash toward Lhasa. It is Qinghai Lake.

    First heard in Chapter 15: The March of GhostsWikipedia

  27. Lhasa

    Лхас

    Seat of the Dalai Lama and goal of the failed winter thrust across Tibet, from which the party turned back under fire toward Mongolia.

    First heard in Chapter 16: In Mysterious TibetWikipedia

  28. Zungaria

    ЗүүнгарIn 1 other book ›

    The West Mongol country beyond the Altai, homeland of the Dzungars (Зүүнгар), whose shepherds the book counts among the tellers of the white-warrior legend; Tushegoun Lama's sway reached across Western Mongolia and Zungaria. It is Dzungaria, the Junggar Basin of northern Xinjiang.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  29. Peking

    BeijingБээжинIn 6 other books ›

    Beijing under its older spelling: seat of the Chinese government whose commissioners and garrisons held Mongolia until Baron Ungern took Urga.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  30. Tola River

    Tuul RiverТуул голIn 3 other books ›

    The river of Urga, along whose banks Baron Ungern's Asiatic Division camped. It is the Tuul.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  31. Karakorum

    KharkhorinХархорум

    The ruined imperial capital of Jenghiz Khan on the Orkhon, visited by Kublai Khan and later buried under the steppe; Erdeni Dzu rose beside its ruins.

    First heard in Chapter 21: The Nest of DeathWikipedia

  32. Tisingol

    A lake on the road between Kosogol and Uliassutai. At its lonely telegraph station Ossendowski lodged with the murderers of the Bobroff family, the darkest night's shelter of the whole flight.

    First heard in Chapter 21: The Nest of Death

  33. Zain Shabi

    TsetserlegЗаяын хүрээ

    The monastic estate ('shabi') of the Zaya Pandita, seat of the young Pandita Hutuktu, where Kazagrandi asked Ossendowski to meet him and Bezrodnoff later searched the White fugitives. Its Kure stood at today's Tsetserleg.

    First heard in Chapter 28: The Breath of DeathWikipedia

  34. Erdeni Dzu

    Erdene Zuu MonasteryЭрдэнэ зуу

    The ancient monastery raised on the ruins of Karakorum, whose underground chambers yielded manuscripts older than the monastery itself. The Pandita Hutuktu carried Ossendowski there by carriage. It is Erdene Zuu, by present-day Kharkhorin.

    First heard in Chapter 29: On the Road of Great ConquerorsWikipedia

People

  1. Genghis Khan

    Чингис хаанIn 7 other books ›

    Founder of the Mongol Empire, spelled Jenghiz Khan in this book. His ruined capital, his prophecies and the memory of his empire haunt every Mongol camp Ossendowski passes through.

    First heard in Chapter 7: Through Soviet SiberiaWikipedia

  2. Baron Ungern

    Roman von Ungern-SternbergРоман Унгерн фон ШтернбергIn 2 other books ›

    Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the White general who took Urga in February 1921 and restored the Bogdo Khan; the central figure of the book's final part. Ossendowski spent days at his side and watched diviners twice give him one hundred thirty days to live; roughly that many days later the Bolsheviki captured and shot him.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the DevilWikipedia

  3. Colonel Kazagrandi

    Николай Казагранди

    The White colonel fighting around Lake Kosogol 'for the independence of Outer Mongolia,' whose letter drew Ossendowski from Uliassutai toward Urga and an audience with Baron Ungern. The historical Nikolai Kazagrandi was himself shot on Ungern's orders in the summer of 1921.

    First heard in Chapter 14: The River of the Devil

  4. The Living Buddha

    Bogd KhanБогд хаанIn 4 other books ›

    The Jebtsundamba Hutuktu of Urga, god-king of Mongolia: blind from drink yet fierce and shrewd, surrounded by miracle stories, gramophones and caged elephants. Enthroned as Bogdo Khan in 1911, deposed by the Chinese, restored by Baron Ungern in 1921; he died in 1924.

    First heard in Chapter 15: The March of GhostsWikipedia

  5. Narabanchi Hutuktu

    Jelyb Djamsrap Hutuktu, the spare, cordial incarnate god of the Blessed Monastery of Narabanchi. He sheltered the fugitives, told Ossendowski of the King of the World's visit to his Kure, and read Chultun Beyli's black fate in the burned shoulder blades.

    First heard in Chapter 15: The March of Ghosts

  6. Dalai Lama

    Далай ламIn 2 other books ›

    The first Pontiff of the Yellow Faith at Lhasa, in Ossendowski's day the 13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso). Tushegoun Lama claimed his friendship, and every road in the book's mystical geography runs at last toward his city.

    First heard in Chapter 16: In Mysterious TibetWikipedia

  7. Kublai Khan

    Хубилай хаанIn 3 other books ›

    Grandson of Jenghiz Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, remembered here as the patron of the lama Paspa and a visitor to the shrines around Karakorum.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  8. Paspa

    Phags-pa LamaПагва лам

    Called the founder of the Yellow Faith in the book's glossary; historically Phags-pa was the Tibetan lama who served Kublai Khan as imperial preceptor and devised his script. (The Yellow Faith proper was founded later, by Tsongkhapa.)

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  9. Djam Bolon

    The great Prince of the Buriats, who had invited Ungern into Mongolia against the Chinese. In his yurta at Urga, over midnight tea, Baron Ungern had Ossendowski retell the legend of the King of the World.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  10. Wang Tsao-tsun

    The young and inexperienced Chinese Commissioner at Uliassutai, who dismissed the Mongol Sait and tried to hold western Mongolia for Peking. When events turned, he fled toward the border, only to have Michailoff's riders strip his caravan of arms and silver.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  11. Fu Hsiang

    Adviser to the Chinese Commissioner Wang Tsao-tsun at Uliassutai, as young and untried as his chief.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  12. Prince Chultun Beyli

    The Mongol Sait (governor) of Uliassutai, a patriot prince who tried to hold the peace between Chinese, Russians and Mongols, and who told Ossendowski of the subterranean kingdom of Agharti. The bones read black for him at Narabanchi: Bezrodnoff shot him for violating the treaty with the Chinese.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  13. Lieutenant-Colonel Michailoff

    M. M. Michailoff, head of the Russian officers' detachment at Uliassutai. His seizure of the fleeing Chinese commissioner's arms and silver split the town's Russians into factions; in the reckoning that followed, 'the Russian Noyon Michailoff also has fallen.'

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  14. Tushegoun Lama

    Ja Lama (Dambijantsan)Жа лам Дамбийжанцан

    The Kalmuck avenger-lama, 'friend of the Dalai Lama,' who ruled the fear of western Mongolia with hypnotic demonstrations and pitiless miracles. He is the historical Ja Lama (Dambijantsan), a leader of the 1912 storming of Kobdo, finally hunted down and killed by Mongolian agents in 1922.

    First heard in Chapter 18: The Mysterious Lama AvengerWikipedia

  15. Tashi Lama

    Panchen LamaБанчин эрдэнэIn 1 other book ›

    The second great Pontiff of the Yellow Faith, seated at Tashilhunpo by Shigatse; in Ossendowski's day the 9th Panchen Lama. The book counts Tashi Lamas among those who received tidings of the King of the World.

    First heard in Chapter 18: The Mysterious Lama AvengerWikipedia

  16. Kanine

    Keeper of the telegraph station at Lake Tisingol, in whose house Ossendowski passed his nights 'among the murderers': Kanine was implicated with the Cheka agent Pouzikoff in the massacre of the Bobroff family.

    First heard in Chapter 22: Among the Murderers

  17. Gorokoff (Pouzikoff)

    'A Russian colonist from Samgaltai' traveling with his short-haired 'sister': in truth Pouzikoff, a commissar of the Cheka, and his mistress, an agent of that establishment. At Tisingol they murdered the Bobroff household and burned the bodies.

    First heard in Chapter 22: Among the Murderers

  18. Bobroff

    The old colonist settled near the Tisingol telegraph station: 'a miserly, inhospitable old fellow' by Kanine's telling, a warm and generous host in fact. He and his whole family were murdered for his savings.

    First heard in Chapter 22: Among the Murderers

  19. Dr. Gay

    Dr. V. G. Gay, the veterinarian famous throughout Mongolia for his battle against rinderpest, who organized supplies for Kazagrandi's force. Once exonerated by Kolchak, he was accused at Urga of serving the Soviets, and by Ungern's order he and his family were killed.

    First heard in Chapter 23: On a Volcano

  20. Colonel Domojiroff

    A freebooting Russian colonel who styled himself 'Noyon': sent by Ungern merely to make contact with General Bakitch, he instead pillaged Chinese firms, menaced Uliassutai with his band, and with Asiatic cunning denounced everyone around him, Ossendowski included, in reports to Urga.

    First heard in Chapter 25: Harassing Days

  21. Hun Boldon

    A proud, ferocious Mongol general ('Hun' is the lowest princely rank) who mobilized beggars and horse stealers at Narabanchi and threatened Prince Chultun Beyli, until Ossendowski persuaded him to parley; he dismissed his Mongols and rode off to Kobdo.

    First heard in Chapter 25: Harassing Days

  22. Colonel Poletika

    A colonel of the former Imperial Guard who arrived in Uliassutai with the Philipoff brothers, scheming to gather the White officers of Mongolia and China for a campaign into Urianhai.

    First heard in Chapter 28: The Breath of Death

  23. N. N. Philipoff

    One of four brothers, former Imperial Guard officers, in Poletika's circle at Uliassutai. Bezrodnoff's search at Zain Shabi turned up suspicious documents in the group's baggage.

    First heard in Chapter 28: The Breath of Death

  24. Captain Bezrodnoff

    Commander of the Mongol-Buriat detachment Ungern sent to restore order in Uliassutai. On the way he searched Poletika's group at Zain Shabi, and in Uliassutai he shot the Sait Chultun Beyli, fulfilling the Narabanchi Hutuktu's dark divination.

    First heard in Chapter 28: The Breath of Death

  25. Pandita Hutuktu

    The 'Very God' of Zain Shabi: a nervous incarnate god of about twenty-two, torn between divinity and a taste for worldly life, over whom hung an old prediction found in the ruins near Erdeni Dzu. He carried Ossendowski off on a five-day drive to the ruins of Karakorum.

    First heard in Chapter 29: On the Road of Great Conquerors

  26. General Rezukhin

    Борис Резухин

    Baron Ungern's deputy, fighting the Bolsheviki along Mongolia's northern border. The historical Boris Rezukhin was killed by his own mutinying officers in August 1921, days before Ungern's capture.

    First heard in Chapter 32: An Old Fortune Teller

  27. Colonel Sepailoff

    Leonid SipailovЛеонид Сипайлов

    'The darkest person on the canvas of Mongolian events': Ungern's Commandant of Urga City, a former mechanician and gendarme who did the Baron's strangling and hanging, humming songs as he worked. He is the historical Leonid Sipailov.

    First heard in Chapter 35: In the City of Living Gods, of 30,000 Buddhas and 60,000 Monks

  28. Gushi Khan

    Güshi Khan

    The chief of the Olets (Kalmucks) who made the Yellow Faith supreme in Tibet in the 1640s. In the lamas' telling he carried the miraculous 'black stone' of the King of the World and brought the holy Undur Gheghen up from Tibet to Mongolia.

    First heard in Chapter 41: The Dust of CenturiesWikipedia

  29. Undur Gheghen

    ZanabazarӨндөр гэгээн Занабазар

    In the book's telling, the holy lama whom Gushi Khan brought from Tibet, first of the line of Living Buddhas at Urga. He is Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar (1635-1723), the first Jebtsundamba and Mongolia's most celebrated sculptor.

    First heard in Chapter 41: The Dust of CenturiesWikipedia

Peoples

  1. Tartar

    ТатарIn 4 other books ›

    Muslim herdsmen of the steppe borderlands; Tartar camps sheltered the travelers on the road to Narabanchi, and Tartar refugees ride through the book's caravans.

    First heard in Chapter 7: Through Soviet SiberiaWikipedia

  2. Soyot

    TuvansСоёд

    The herding people of Urianhai, gentle Buddhists ('Mende!' is their greeting) who guided, sheltered and sometimes dreaded the armed strangers passing through their valleys. Today they are the Tuvans.

    First heard in Chapter 9: To the Sayans and SafetyWikipedia

  3. Kalmuck

    KalmyksХалимаг

    The western Mongols who migrated to the Volga steppe, where they remain as Russia's Kalmyks; Tushegoun Lama was a Kalmuck, and the book counts Gushi Khan's Olets among their kin.

    First heard in Chapter 9: To the Sayans and SafetyWikipedia

  4. Buriat

    BuryatsБуриадIn 3 other books ›

    The Mongol people of the Baikal country: Buriat riders filled Ungern's and Bezrodnoff's detachments, and their great Prince Djam Bolon sat with the Baron at Urga.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  5. Chahar

    ЦахарIn 2 other books ›

    The warlike Mongol tribe from along the Great Wall. A Chahar detachment under a former hunghutze chief, sent by the Chinese authorities, looted its way through Uliassutai before riding on toward Kobdo.

    First heard in Chapter 18: The Mysterious Lama AvengerWikipedia

  6. Olets

    ÖöldӨөлд

    A West Mongol (Oirat) people of the Uliassutai country, whom the book treats as one nation with the Kalmucks; Gushi Khan was their great chief.

    First heard in Chapter 28: The Breath of DeathWikipedia

Terms

  1. Naida

    нодья

    The Siberian woodsman's all-night fire: dry trunks laid one upon another, burning slowly along their whole length while the travelers sleep beside them. (Russian nodya.)

    First heard in Chapter 2: The Secret of My Fellow Traveler

  2. Cheka

    ЧК

    The Bolshevik 'Extraordinary Commission,' the secret police of the Revolution; its commissars and agents pursue the refugees through Siberia and across the Mongolian border.

    First heard in Chapter 6: A River in TravailWikipedia

  3. Noyon

    ноён

    A prince or lord; in polite address, 'Chief' or 'Excellency.' The freebooter Domojiroff liked to be styled Noyon.

    First heard in Chapter 11: The Barrier of Red Partisans

  4. Yurta

    gerгэр

    The round felt tent of the steppe, the common Mongolian house. Ossendowski uses the Russian word yurta; the Mongols' own name for it is ger.

    First heard in Chapter 11: The Barrier of Red Partisans

  5. Ta Lama

    Literally 'the great priest'; by Ossendowski's day the title meant a doctor of medicine.

    First heard in Chapter 12: In the Country of Eternal Peace

  6. Dugun

    A Chinese commercial and military post; the duguns along the caravan roads doubled as trading houses and garrisons.

    First heard in Chapter 12: In the Country of Eternal Peace

  7. Obo

    ovooовоо

    The sacred cairn raised at passes and dangerous places, where travelers leave offerings; neglecting the obo of an angry demon like Jagasstai could cost a rider his life. Now spelled ovoo.

    First heard in Chapter 13: Mysteries, Miracles and a New FightWikipedia

  8. Hatyk

    khadagхадаг

    The oblong ceremonial silk scarf presented to honored guests, chiefs, Lamas and gods, and even passed as small money. It is the khadag, still exchanged in Mongolia today.

    First heard in Chapter 13: Mysteries, Miracles and a New Fight

  9. Hunghutze

    honghuzi

    Chinese brigands (the 'red beards,' honghuzi) of the Manchurian and Mongolian borderlands; hunghutze bands and ex-hunghutze soldiers stalk the caravan roads of the book.

    First heard in Chapter 16: In Mysterious TibetWikipedia

  10. Gelong

    гэлэн

    A fully ordained Lamaite priest with the right to offer sacrifice; Prince Chultun Beyli's favorite Gelong helped tell Ossendowski the tale of Agharti.

    First heard in Chapter 16: In Mysterious Tibet

  11. Sait

    сайд

    A Mongolian governor, such as Prince Chultun Beyli at Uliassutai. The word (said) survives as modern Mongolian for a government minister.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  12. Yellow Faith

    Gelugшарын шашин

    The 'Yellow' school of Tibetan Buddhism (the Gelug), headed by the Dalai and Tashi Lamas in Tibet and by the Living Buddha in Mongolia.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious MongoliaWikipedia

  13. Ourton

    өртөө

    A post station where travelers change horses, served by oulatchens, the rider-guides; a tzara from the authorities gave the right to fresh mounts at each one. The örtöö relay network dated from the courier system of the Mongol Empire.

    First heard in Chapter 17: Mysterious Mongolia

  14. King of the World

    The hidden sovereign of the subterranean realm of Agharti, who in the lamas' telling appeared at Narabanchi Kure in 1890 and pronounced a prophecy of the coming half-century. Ossendowski's closing chapters carried this legend to Western readers for the first time.

    First heard in Chapter 18: The Mysterious Lama Avenger

  15. Agharti

    Agartha

    The subterranean kingdom beneath Asia where the King of the World reigns, described to Ossendowski by princes and lamas as the book's final mystery. His account is the classic Western source of the Agartha legend.

    First heard in Chapter 18: The Mysterious Lama AvengerWikipedia

  16. Jagasstai

    The demon of a pass on the road to Uliassutai, blamed for storms, stranglings and ruined horses; ever since a khan's widow doubted him, 'the Jagasstai is dangerous for the good and bad alike,' and riders propitiate him at his obos.

    First heard in Chapter 20: The Demon of Jagisstai

  17. Tashur

    ташуур

    The strong bamboo riding stick every traveler carries; Mongolian tashuur, a horse whip.

    First heard in Chapter 20: The Demon of Jagisstai

  18. Hushun

    хашаа

    A fenced enclosure holding the houses, paddocks and stables of Russian Cossack settlers in Mongolia; from the Mongolian khashaa, a fence-yard.

    First heard in Chapter 25: Harassing Days

  19. Maramba

    марамба

    A lama holding the doctorate in theology; the marambas of the book serve as physicians, archivists and diviners.

    First heard in Chapter 27: Mystery in a Small Temple

  20. Bandi

    банди

    A novice, a pupil of the theological schools; the first step on the lama's ladder.

    First heard in Chapter 27: Mystery in a Small Temple

  21. Hubilgan

    хувилгаан

    An incarnation: a person in whom a divine or saintly spirit is held to be reborn, as the Hutuktus and Gheghens of Mongolia are.

    First heard in Chapter 29: On the Road of Great Conquerors

  22. Imouran

    A small gopher-like rodent of the steppe (a suslik); in the herdsmen's legend it is 'the steed of the gay lark,' who warns it of circling eagles.

    First heard in Chapter 31: Traveling by “Urga”

  23. Goro

    The high priests of the King of the World in the Agharti legend; Om, the first Goro of three hundred thirty thousand years ago, gave his name to the holiest of syllables.

    First heard in Chapter 46: The Subterranean Kingdom

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