{"id":169,"date":"2009-12-28T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/12\/28\/mongolian-pieta-animatic-close-up\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:19:18","slug":"mongolian-pieta-animatic-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/12\/28\/mongolian-pieta-animatic-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Machmer: Mongolian Piet\u00e0 (Animatic Close-up)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Easily the most overlooked woman in history:\u00a0\u00d6gel\u00fcn, founder of the Mongol Empire,\u00a0mother of Genghis Kahn. (This is a work-in-progress from an animatic pitched for Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol II<\/i>; the full motion sequence will be posted here soon with an explanation of this scene.)<\/p>\n

\u00d6gel\u00fcn’s influence became law from Vietnam to Vienna; to survive\u00a0in the constant violence of what was effectively a multi-continent open-air jail,\u00a0this remarkable female human being founded the largest empire ever known:
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mongol_invasions<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00d6gel\u00fcn’s shamefully\u00a0anemic, spiritless Wikipedia entry desperately needs the attention of a respectful Wikipedian with free time:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoelun<\/a><\/div>\n
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(Yes there are forgotten female poets, scientists, philosophers and so on, but no one has had as lasting, long-reaching impact — and has been as intentionally<\/i> neglected — as wise beautiful \u00d6gel\u00fcn. If you ever wonder what a woman means when she speaks of a person having a strong mind<\/i> — study\u00a0\u00d6gel\u00fcn.)<\/div>\n
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The following are passages\u00a0<\/i>describing her early years\u00a0as written in\u00a0The Secret History of the Mongols\u00a0(a remarkable book originally commissioned by Genghis Kahn nearly a thousand years ago — and only translated to English within recent decades):\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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CHAPTER TWO<\/div>\n
~ Section 74 ~<\/div>\n
The Taichigud kinsmen left the widowed \u00d6gel\u00fcn-\u00fcjin, with her small sons on the site of migration and moved away.<\/div>\n
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Lady \u00d6gel\u00fcn was born<\/div>\n
an intelligent woman<\/div>\n
she arranged her hair in braids<\/div>\n
and wore them round her head.<\/div>\n
And tucked up her gown skirt<\/div>\n
running up and down<\/div>\n
along the Onan River<\/div>\n
picking hurtle-berries and bird cherries<\/div>\n
nourishing her smalls sons with them.<\/div>\n
Day and night.<\/div>\n
The gloriously born \u00d6gel\u00fcn the Mother,<\/div>\n
dug roots of burnet and of silver weed<\/div>\n
with the tapered stick of spruce<\/div>\n
to feed on them<\/div>\n
with her intelligent sons.<\/div>\n
The sons of \u00d6gel\u00fcn the mother<\/div>\n
supported with the food<\/div>\n
seasoned by the bulbs of red lily<\/div>\n
attained to man’s estate.<\/div>\n
The sons of prudent \u00d6gel\u00fcn provided with the food<\/div>\n
seasoned by sorrels and senescent alliums<\/div>\n
grew up to ascend the throne.<\/div>\n
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~ Section 75 ~<\/div>\n
The lanky, over grown sons<\/div>\n
nourished with the food<\/div>\n
seasoned by linear and senescent alliums<\/div>\n
from the beautiful \u00d6gel\u00fcn<\/div>\n
arrived at the age of gentle minister.<\/div>\n
They grew into fine gallants.<\/div>\n
They said to each other<\/div>\n
“Let us look after our mother<\/div>\n
by angling for all and sundry fishes<\/div>\n
when they were sitting down<\/div>\n
on the bank of the Onan River<\/div>\n
to repair hooks.<\/div>\n
They blended needles into hooks<\/div>\n
and caught salmon and grayling.<\/div>\n
They made seines and gorges<\/div>\n
and caught finger lingoes”<\/div>\n
Then, with grateful heart<\/div>\n
they fed their mother.<\/div>\n
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The Secret History of the Mongols<\/i>, translated from Mongolian into English by N. Dorjgotov and Z. Erendo; edited by D. Tumurtogoo, National University of Mongolia (2007).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easily the most overlooked woman in history:\u00a0\u00d6gel\u00fcn, founder of the Mongol Empire,\u00a0mother of Genghis Kahn. (This is a work-in-progress from an animatic pitched for Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol II; the full motion sequence will be posted here soon with an explanation of this scene.) \u00d6gel\u00fcn’s influence became law from Vietnam to Vienna; to survive\u00a0in the constant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,42,25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-machmer","category-mongolian","category-storyboards","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}