warriors of the steppe in movies, music and art

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Robert Gordon Latham, Russian and Turk from a Geographical, Ethnological and Historical Point of View, London, Allen, 1878.

Looks like an interesting book.

A brief description I found online:
Latham deals with the origins and histories of the Turks, and all the peoples and religions of the whole Ottoman Empire, all with references to the situation on the Balkans during the 1878 crisis and in relation of geopolitical shifts. There are chapters on Wahabis, Judaeo-Arabs, Nestorian Christians, Khasars, Central Asian Turcic people, Huns, Finno-Ugrian connections, Mongols, Druzes, the ethnography of Bulgaria, Albania and the patchwork of religions and peoples of the Balkans. Robert Gordon Latham was one of the most eminent ethnologists and philologists of the 19th century, with an amazing scope of languages at his command.

Here's a free link to the book at archive.org:
archive.org/details/russianturkfromg00lath

Wikipedia link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gordon_Latham

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Oct 1, 2017 2:58:14 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

Sept 30, 2017 19:39:07 GMT -5 deuce said:

I assume you know about this?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirili%C5%9F:_Ertu%C4%9Frul

It's streaming on Netflix:

www.netflix.com/title/80127001

Thanks for the post Deuce. 

This series is very popular in the Turkish Republic. The fourth season is expected in the next couple of weeks. I'll post the trailer when it becomes available.

As promised, here's the trailer for the 2nd episode of the new series.

This is series is loosely based on the adventures of the 13th century warrior Ertuğrul (Father of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire). 



Update: Unfortunately, it looks like you can only play the trailer on youtube. 

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'Sword and Saddle' Movies: Genghis Khan (2017)

A new Genghis Khan movie will premiere on the 22nd of December in China.

The movie is produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud and directed by Hasi Chaolu.

From what I can ascertain the movie will be based on the early years of Temüjin and his one true love Börte. There also appears to be a fantasy element involved in the movie.

Cast


William Chan as the young Temüjin.


Lin Yun as Börte.


Hu Jun  as Küchlüg of the Naiman.

I'll add a trailer as soon as I catch one online. Surprised I've not managed to find one, yet... 

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The Funeral Customs of the Türks: According to the Chinese written sources.


A modern rendition of Erlik Khan the Turko-Mongolian god of the underworld.

If one of them dies, his body is laid out in the tent. Each of the relatives of the deceased kills a sheep and a horse (cattle and horses) and places them in front of the tent as a sacrifice. Then they ride seven times around the tent on their horses, crying and mourning, and they cut their face with a knife. They are weeping untill their tears mix with blood running from their faces. They do this seven times and then (only) cease. They choose the day and then take their horses and garments and objects of daily use of the deceased and burn it with the body (..place the corpse on the horse and burn it). Then they gather up the ashes and bury it at the appropriate time: if somebody dies in spring or summer time, they wait until the grass and leaves on the trees turn yellow; if somebody dies in autumn or winter, they wait until the steppe covers with flowers blooming. They dig a grave and bury (the ashes). The day of the funeral his relatives again bring sacrificial gifts, ride their horses and cut their faces. The entire ceremony is the very same as on the day of death. After the funeral they pile up stones and set up a pole; the number of stones depends on the number of people the deceased had killed during his life (if the deceased had ever killed a man, they place a stone, i.e. for each man killed they erect a stone). The number of stones sometimes amount to hundreds or thousands. Then they place the heads of the sacrificed sheep and horses on the pole. That day men and women gather dressed in fine clothes and with lots of jewellery.(In the grave they make a space where they place a painted portrait of the deceased and battle scenes in which he had participated).
Sui-shu (636 AD)

Later they bury the ashes and set a wooden pole on the mound as a memorial mark. On the mound they construct a space inside which they paint a face of deceased and battle scenes, which he participated in. Whether he had ever killed an enemy, they put a stone in front of the mound. The number of such stones may reach hundred or thousand.
Wei-shi (659 AD)

They had placed a (memorial) pole on the mound. On the mound they also build a space inside which they painted a face of the dead and also the battle scenes of his life. Whether he had ever killed one man, they erected one stone. So far it is usual to erect hundreds or thousands of such stones.

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Legnica: The Horde reaches Poland...


deadliestblogpage.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/legnica-the-mongol-terror-reaches-poland/

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Linda Cooke Johnson, Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China, 2011, University of Hawai’i Press.



Description:
China’s historical women warriors hailed from the northeast (Manchuria) during the Liao (907–1125) and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties. Celebrated in the Liao History, they were "unprecedented." They rode horseback astride, were good at hunting and shooting, and took part in military battles. Several empresses—and one famous bandit chief—led armies against the enemy Song state. Women of the Conquest Dynasties represents a groundbreaking effort to survey the customs and lives of these women from the Kitan and Jurchen tribes who maintained their native traditions of horsemanship, militancy, and sexual independence while excelling in writing poetry and prose and earning praise for their Buddhist piety and Confucian ethics. Although much work has been devoted in the last few years to Chinese women of various periods, this is the first volume to incorporate recent archaeological discoveries and information drawn from Liao and Jin paintings as well as literary sources and standard historical accounts.

Conquest women combined agency and assertiveness drawn from steppe traditions with selected aspects of Chinese culture such as ethics and literacy. Empress Chengtian led Liao armies to victory against the Song, successfully ran the state for thirty years during her son’s reign, and enjoyed a lengthy and public liaison with her prime minister. Empress Yingtian, the wife of the Liao founder and his assistant in military affairs, famously refused to comply with the steppe custom of following one’s husband in death; instead she cut off her right hand and placed it in the late emperor’s coffin as a promise to join him later. These confident and talented women were rarely submissive in matters of sexuality and spouse selection, but they were subject to the restrictions of marriage and the levirate if widowed.

The women of the northeast stand in vivid contrast to their counterparts in the south, where female identity was molded by a millennia of Confucian ethics and women were increasingly sequestered in the home and constrained by concepts of virtue. Women of the Conquest Dynasties provides new insights into the history of steppe patterns of feminine behavior and will reveal new areas of comparative study.

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Aug 28, 2017 11:23:38 GMT -5 Von K said:

Aug 25, 2017 1:26:32 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

I remember years ago, I got real close to reading Legend or was it The King Beyond the Gate? - I still can't remember why I did not dive into David Gemmell's Drenai tales. 

They're both great and worth reading Hun. That's the cover of the copy that I first read, paperback version. Is that your own hardback?

I managed to pick up 5 volumes of David Gemmell's Drenai tales. I still gotta find The Quest for Lost Heroes, that shouldn't be to difficult. I'm still reading Harold Lamb's Cossack yarns and the odd bit of history in-between - but, I'll eventually get round to Legend and follow up with the earlier Druss yarns. Then I'll probably join the horde with Tenaka Khan in The King Beyond the Gate and Quest for Lost Heroes. 

Thanks for the recommendation, Von K.

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Hey, great stuff Hun. Hope you enjoy them!

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Hey Hun.
Thanks to all posters in here.

>>>> See my TUMBLR PICTURE BLOG for a special sexy mongolian treat.
Post p1158.
[ she looks great ]

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A couple of videos in the Mari language. 


Šošo (Spring).


Oj, Joltashem (translates as My Comrade) by Marina Sadova.


I know it can be difficult remembering all the different peoples of Eurasia - hopefully this Linguistic map of the Uralic languages will help. 

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Nov 20, 2017 12:28:31 GMT -5 buxom9sorceress said:

Hey Hun.
Thanks to all posters in here.

>>>> See my TUMBLR PICTURE BLOG for a special sexy mongolian treat.
Post p1158.
[ she looks great ]

Wow! You're right she looks great. 

Thanks for all the great Pics, Bux.

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How Asian nomadic herders built new Bronze Age cultures
In wagons and on horses, Yamnaya pastoralists left their genetic mark from Ireland to China

www.sciencenews.org/article/how-asian-nomadic-herders-built-new-bronze-age-cultures

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Hunnic art (Xiongnu Exhibition, Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China, 2012)

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Hunnic art (Xiongnu Exhibition, Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China, 2012)

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Hunnic art (Xiongnu Exhibition, Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China, 2012)