A Kernel of Truth (2)
Image: While in transit… Courtesy: http://www.journeymongolia.com/index.php/item?id=13 My new chapter takes a sincere look at the nomads, trying to access their contribution to the human culture as well as to understand why the pastoralist lifestyle was so hard to digest for the settled people. This extract poses an antithesis to the previous one where I picked up a choir of opinions of outsiders about the migrants. Unit IV is going to be the largest part of my book in terms of the number of chapters. The next extract will focus on the second fusion of the legend where Alexander as the guardian of civilization is opposed the ultimate enemy of Gog-Magog. Here is the extract from Chapter 4: How come that the settled population still puts the pastoralists to shame for adhering to the “barbarian” lifestyle? These very people grazed their flocks on natural pasturelands of grassy plains and mountain slopes. Stock-herders turned their yurts into...