Like in the Manas, a character in this text is born clutching a  st-sized blood clot; that character exchanges knucklebones to create a pledge of anda, or brotherhood.
In a dream from this text, two homosocial companions are represented as a cow who loses her horn and a hornless bull. This text describes a ray of light that impregnates Alan the Fair in a genealogy passage that begins with the marriage of a doe and a wolf. This text was discovered in the 19th century by the Archimandrite Palladius. A character in this text creates a bodyguard called the kheshig led by the sons of his regiment commanders; that character also commands Tata-Tonga to create a writing script. Like in the Manas, a character in this text is born clutching a  st-sized blood clot; that character exchanges knucklebones to create a pledge of anda, or brotherhood. The protagonist of this text attacks the Merkids to retrieve his stolen wife, Borte (bor-tuh), along with his friend and rival Jamukha. This text's later chapters describe the fall of the Khwarezmian Kingdom, and it ends in the reign of Ogedei. For 10 points, name this history of Genghis Khan that shares its name with a text by Procopius.
In a dream from this text, two homosocial companions are represented as a cow who loses her horn and a hornless bull.
the Secret History of the Mongols [or Tobchiyan; or Mongolyn Nuuts Tovchoo]