ABSTRACT

While they were encamped at Bürgi-ergi at the head of the Kelüren River, early one morning, when the light was yellow and dawn was breaking, the old woman Qo’aqchin, who served in the tent of Hö’elün-eke, got up, and said: ‘Mother, mother! Get up at once! The earth is quaking. A thundering sound is to be heard. Can it be that the terrible Tayyichi’ut are on their way here? Mother, get up at once!’