Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Sagen aus dem Fernen Osten: Kalmückische und mongolische überlieferte Erzählungen
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About 7 h 40 min to read.Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love fables, trickster tales, talking animals and magic, and for anyone curious about Buddhist India and the Mongol steppes. Each story is short and stands alone, so it suits listening in pieces.
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What would you do if a corpse in a sack begged you for a story, and every word you spoke cost you your prize? Sagas from the Far East is an anonymous collection of Kalmouk and Mongolian tales, drawn from Indian sources. It gives you a prince who must stay silent, twenty-three stories told along a road, and a golden throne guarded by wooden figures. Start with the prince and his hard bargain.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A prince must carry a corpse in silenceFree
- 2Loyal lovers cross the lands of the dead
- 3Massang the bull-headed man makes a promise
- 4Fools and rebels win by luck and nerve
- 5Devotion and cunning decide who wins
- 6Skills, secrets and strange bargains
- 7Greed, wives and a poor boy's fortune
- 8Friends, flatterers and clever small creatures
- 9A golden throne tests every king who climbs
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A prince must carry a corpse in silence
The book opens with a bow to the teacher Nagarjuna and a tale of seven magicians in Magadha. A khan's son learns their secret art by peeping through a crack in a door. He first turns into a horse. When the magicians hunt him, he escapes as a fish and then a dove, and at last flees into the cave of Nagarjuna.
After the prince kills the seven magicians, the teacher says he has done wrong and sets him a penance. Nagarjuna gives him an axe called White Moon, a bag big enough for a hundred, and a cake that never shrinks. He renames him the Well-and-wise-walking Khan.
The prince's assignment is to fetch the corpse. There is one rule. The prince must not speak a word on the road back. The corpse knows this, so he offers a story to ease the journey and asks only for a nod. Each tale is a trap, because the prince will be tempted to comment, and that comment will free the corpse.
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About 7 h 40 min to read.Questions about Sagen aus dem Fernen Osten: Kalmückische und mongolische überlieferte Erzählungen
What is Sagas from the Far East about?
It is a collection of Kalmouk and Mongolian tales. A prince carries a magic corpse who tells him stories along the road, and a second part tells of a golden throne once owned by the hero king Vikramaditja.
Who is the Siddhi-kur?
He is a corpse filled with magical power who climbs a mango tree in a burial grove. The prince must carry him to the teacher Nagarjuna, but the corpse tempts him to speak with tales.
Who was Vikramaditja?
He is a legendary Indian king whose name was borne by several heroes. In the book, a golden throne holds his wisdom, and carved figures tell his deeds to a Mongol king who wants to sit on it.
Is the book easy to listen to?
Each tale is short and self-contained, with clear plots, talking animals, tricksters and magic. The frame story links them like a road trip, so you can enjoy a tale at a time.