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You will love this if you enjoy fairy tales with a sharp edge, wise fools and clever wives, or stories that travelled across Asia.
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What if your only task was to keep your mouth shut, and every story you heard made that harder? That is the test set for the Well-and-wise-walking Khan in this collection of Kalmouk and Mongolian tales. He must carry a magic corpse, the Siddhi-kur, and the corpse tells him tales to tempt him into speech.
The book is anonymous. Its stories began in India, travelled north through Tibet, and settled in Mongolia, where bards changed names and landscapes to suit their listeners. You will meet serpent gods, shrewd wives, greedy brothers, and kings who judge too fast.
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- 1A Khan's son wins a taskFree
- 2Every story ends with one slip of speech
- 3Love and loyalty reach into the world of the dead
- 4A bull-headed outcast keeps his promise
- 5A lazy man becomes a seer by luck
- 6Quick wits beat power
- 7Five friends, one wife, and a corpse that bites
- 8Kindness is repaid, and greed is punished
- 9Clever wives and a fool who finds his fortune
- 10The tales weigh speech, trust, and rebirth
- 11A buried throne and thirty-two guardians
Idea clave 1 de 11
A Khan's son wins a task
The book opens with seven magician brothers in the kingdom of Magadha. A Khan's son studies with them for seven years and learns nothing. His younger brother glances through a crack in the door and learns their whole art in a moment.
The younger brother turns himself into a horse, and the magicians buy it to destroy it. The chase runs through a fish, a dove, and a crowd of hawks, and ends at the cave of the teacher Nagarjuna. There the prince becomes a bead on a rosary, and the seven pursuers peck at the scattered beads. The prince takes his own shape and kills all seven with a staff.
Nagarjuna calls this evil, even though it saved a life. To make amends, the prince must fetch the Siddhi-kur from a mango tree among the dead. He gets a new name, the Well-and-wise-walking Khan, and one rule: never open your lips on the road.
Cleverness can win a life but cannot clear a debt.
That’s 1 of 11 key points.
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- LengthAbout 105,100 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 20 min
Questions about Sagas del Lejano Oriente: relatos tradicionales kalmukos y mongoles
What is Sagas from the Far East about?
It is a collection of Kalmouk and Mongolian tales told inside a frame. A Khan carries a magic corpse to his teacher, and the corpse tells stories that tempt him to speak. A second cycle follows, about a golden throne and the hero Vikramaditja.
Who is the Siddhi-kur?
The Siddhi-kur is a dead body endowed with magical power, shown as part gold and part emerald with a mother-of-pearl head. He lives in a mango tree in a burial grove and uses stories to make the Khan speak.
What is the main message of the tales?
The tales weigh speech, trust, and justice. They praise loyalty, kindness, and quick thinking, and they warn against greed, envy, false friends, and hasty judgment.
Cite this edition
Sagas from the Far East: Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/sagas-from-the-far-east-kalmouk-and-mongolian-traditionary-tales.
Sagas from the Far East: Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sagas-from-the-far-east-kalmouk-and-mongolian-traditionary-tales
Sagas from the Far East: Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sagas-from-the-far-east-kalmouk-and-mongolian-traditionary-tales.
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