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I finished up with the sort of lengthy transcription part that I turned into taking a guess at translation, because if I have to look up almost all the words and mark down grammatical stuff, I might as well.

This is epic history/mythology, depending on who you ask, so some paragraphs were easy to guess and with others it was mostly hopeless beyond some phrases. This one in which, for context, five sons get told by their mother Alan Goo-a that she fucked a light beam, was somewhere in-between. I had the leg up that we had talked about this story before, so I knew her bed adventures. 

On the other hand, some of those words I looked up... I am 100% sure my version of the text says the man was leaving like a yellow dog wagging his tail - the wagging tail part was very clear and had no alternative meanings. Who knows where that went?

The whole story is actually pretty ubiquituous in culture. Alan Goo-a sits down her five sons and tells the older two to stop harassing the younger three because they were born after their dad died, even though no man came near her. Cue this. The famous part is this: She gives all her sons one arrow and tells them to break it in two. They all are able to. Then she gives each of them a stack of arrows tied together, which none of them can break. The message: you are stronger together than you are apart.  The whole thing you can read in the Secret History of the Mongols.

From what I hear, that made it into some of the new Planet of the Apes movies and through there into meme culture, like the GameStop reddit stonks because apes together strong. Pretty cool lesson from a light beam fucker, so good for her.


Paragraph of words, see cut for transcript
§21 [13r] Every night, a bright yellow man entered by the light of the hole at the top or [by that] of the door top of the tent and rubbed my belly. His light was wont to sink into my belly. When he went out, like a yellow dog he was wont to crawl out by the beams of the sun or moon.
How [can] ye speak [so] rashly?
If one understand by that, [it is evident that]
Its sign is [that]They are sons of Heaven.
How [can] ye speak, comparing [them] [13v]
Unto the people with black heads?
When they become qad of all,
The common people will then understand [it.]

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