The Secret History of the Mongols was “discovered” only recently, in 1866 in Beijing. I’ve heard that it is the only work that survived because the Chinese destroyed a lot of Mongol sources, but this copy was written in Chinese characters, so it slipped past their radar. This discovery is significant for a lot of reasons, but it is relevant to this post because guess who discovered it…
Archimandrite Palladius. “Awesome” could very well have been his middle name, and it would have fit in just fine.
actually laughed out loud...i love this. you're so wonderful.
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