In time before that Bargudai, who owned Bargudjin on Lake Baikal, had a
daughter whom he gave to Horilartai of Horntumadun. From this marriage
came Alan Goa, born at Alih Usun. They had left their old place since
the hunting of ermine and squirrels had been stopped there. Horilartai
removed to Mount Burhan, where game was abundant. He joined Shinchi
Boyan, the master of Mount Burhan, and began the clan Horilar. Thus
Doben found Alan Goa, who bore him two sons, Bugundai and Bailgun Etai.
Duva the one-eyed had four sons. The two brothers and their six sons
lived in one company till Duva’s death; after that Duva’s four sons
deserted their uncle, and founded the clan known as Dorbian.
One day while Doben was hunting he found in the forest a man roasting
venison and straightway asked meat of him. The man kept one flank and
the lungs, and gave the remainder to Doben who tied what he got to his
saddle, and started off homeward. He met on the road a poor man and a
small boy. “Who art thou?” inquired Doben. “I am of the Malish
Boyandai,” said the poor man, “I am in need, give me venison, I pray
thee, I will give thee my son in return for it.” Doben gave the man a
deer leg, took the boy home, and made him his attendant.
Some years passed, the boy grew, and Doben died. The boy, now a man,
served the widow. While a widow Alan Goa bore three sons; the eldest
was Buga Hatagi, the second Tusalchi, the third Boduanchar. The two
sons born of Doben said once to each other: “Our mother has no husband,
no brother of our father has ever been in this yurta, still she has
three sons. There is only one man in the house, he has lived with us
always; is he not their father?”
Alan Goa learned that the two elder brothers were curious concerning
the other three, so one day she called in her five sons and seating
them together gave each one an arrow and told him to break it. Each
broke his arrow. She then bound five arrows firmly together and
commanded to break them—not one of the brothers could break the five
arrows when tied in a bundle.
“Ye are in doubt,” said she then to her eldest and second son, “as to
who is the father of my third, fourth and fifth sons. Ye wonder, and
with reason, for ye know not that a golden hued man makes his way to
this yurta. He enters through the door by which light comes, he enters
in through the smoke hole like sunshine. The brightness which comes
from him fills me when I look at him. Going off on the rays of the sun
or the moon he runs like a swift yellow dog till he vanishes. Cease
talking idly. Your three youngest brothers are children of Heaven, and
no one may liken them to common men. When they are khans ye will know
this.”
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