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Daughter of the Yellow Dragon: A Mongolian Epic: 1 (Fractured Empire)

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With ear flaps and a broad flap brim that was reversible in winter, the helmet was an ideal piece of armor. Helmets for the less well-off Mongol troops were often constructed of leather. Contemporary Accounts The Yuan warrior’s helmet and armor from the time of the Mongol conquest of Japan. Image: Wikimedia.

In Persian Sufi literature, Rumi writes in his Masnavi [49] that the dragon symbolizes the sensual soul ( nafs), greed and lust, that need to be mortified in a spiritual battle. [50] [51] Rustam kills the dragon, folio from Shahnameh of Shah Ismail II, attrib. Sadegi (Beg), Iran, Tabriz, c. 1576 AD, view 1 – Aga Khan Museum – Toronto, Canada In Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode, Aeëtes of Colchis tells the hero Jason that the Golden Fleece he is seeking is in a copse guarded by a dragon, "which surpassed in breadth and length a fifty-oared ship". [112] Jason slays the dragon and makes off with the Golden Fleece together with his co-conspirator, Aeëtes's daughter, Medea. [113] The earliest artistic representation of this story is an Attic red-figure kylix dated to c. 480–470 BC, [114] showing a bedraggled Jason being disgorged from the dragon's open mouth as the Golden Fleece hangs in a tree behind him and Athena, the goddess of wisdom, stands watching. [114] [101] A fragment from Pherecydes of Athens states that Jason killed the dragon, [113] but fragments from the Naupactica and from Herodorus state that he merely stole the Fleece and escaped. [113] In Euripides's Medea, Medea boasts that she killed the Colchian dragon herself. [113] In the final scene of the play, Medea also flies away on a chariot pulled by two dragons. [115] In the most famous retelling of the story from Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Medea drugs the dragon to sleep, allowing Jason to steal the Fleece. [116] Greek vase paintings show her feeding the dragon the sleeping drug in a liquid form from a phialē, or shallow cup. [117] Paestan red-figure kylix-krater ( c. 350–340 BC) showing Cadmus fighting the dragon of Ares [118] Yet the rebirth of Chengis’ line is certainly due to a woman, and so is that of the Targaryen dynasty.Additionally, the shape is not a C-shaped dragon with a curled body, but a spread out image of a dragon. Fee, Christopher R. (2011), Chance, Jane (ed.), Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might, Praeger Series on the Middle Ages, Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, and Oxford, England, ISBN 978-0-313-02725-3 {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

It would have been unimaginable to erase Visenya and Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon’s sister-wives, from the histories. Women without whom Aegon could not have conquered Westeros, their symbolic value is too grand…but generations later, the legacy of female Targaryens had dwindled, and Daenerys is seen as merely an attractive pawn to be sold to the highest bidder, as happened eventually to the Borijin princesses. The legends and traditions of Spain's cities and villages in Spain is Culture". www.spainisculture.com . Retrieved 1 September 2023. The Mongolian team from Ulaanbaatar University and the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology working at the tombs of Xiongnu or Hun State aristocrats, valley of Balgas, Khanui bag, Undur-ulaan soum, Arkhangai province announced that they finallycompleted the excavation of 400 tombs after 3 years. Walter, Christopher (2003), The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition, Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9781840146943Williamson, Jamie (2015), The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, New York City, New York and Basingstoke, England, doi: 10.1057/9781137515797, ISBN 978-1-137-51579-7 {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) The Best archaeological discoveries are those which challenge our ideas of human history, reveal new secrets all together, and above all capture the imagination. The Tombs of Xiongnu aristocrats in Central Mongolia No doubt that it is an impressive creation, but with minimal research we discovered the true origins of this beast. This fur-lined robe-like clothing had a button closure a few inches below the right armpit and was closed by crossing the left flap over the right. Anti-Arrow Silk Clothing A Mongolian warrior with a traditional coat. One of the figures of mounted Mongol Yuan soldiers from the excavation of Hesheng Tomb in Qindu District, China. (Image: 三猎)

One little apron is folded over and stitched to another at the top so that the plates can be securely attached. Thus, the plates provide homogeneous protection, and identical armor is created for their horses and soldiers. The armor is so shiny that a man can look directly at his reflection.” Ystoria Mongalorum, by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1185–1252). Mayor, Andrienne (2000), The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-05863-6 In many ways the collapse of the Targaryen dynasty echoes that of Chengis Khan’s. Many point to the Toluid Civil War between Kublai Khan and his brother Ariq Boke as the moment which finally broke the empire, allowing the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate to truly become independent. Kublai was never the Great Khan in truth, unable to influence or settle the internecine wars between his cousin and brother, leaving the seeds of disunity to grow. She let fearful men who thought they knew better think for her—men who, in the way of arrogance, confused their own interests for hers, and never recognized her true glory.Rauer, Christine (2000), Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues, Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, ISBN 0-85991-592-1 Ogden, Daniel (2013), Drakon : Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-955732-5

Therefore, iron mail may not have been widely used in Mongol armor. Due to the nomadic lifestyle of the Mongols, Mongolian armor was often lighter than its Eastern and Western equivalents. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Why Cant the video be crystal Clear Like he TVs why does the video have to be a but fuzzy looking That makes it Questionable since there is no clarity

Mayor, Adrienne (2005), Fossil Legends of the First Americans, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-11345-9 Viserys, like Bayan, was no king. The Dothraki khal, Drogo, made sure he knew this to be true before the end. Like Bayan’s Borijin braggadocio, Viserys embodied all the bravado of the Targaryen dynasty—the name, the claim, but none of the fire. That fire was instead the birthright of his sister. Viserys acted with all the arrogance of leadership and tried to reclaim his birthright but died forgotten, despised even by those who might have loved him. Swaddling, Judith (1989), The Ancient Olympic Games, London, England: British Museum Press, ISBN 0-292-77751-5 Kelly, Henry Ansgar (2006), Satan: A Biography, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521604024

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