The White Horseman

explained by SMALASHKAP

 

The Khans of the Thirteen are dressed in white, ride a white horse, and take along a green banner; leading a hundred young men, and letting each young man take along a banner; going from the southwest to the northeast, they seem to fly, going to the place of the yellow camels, and to the place where the yellow dust rises up. Such is their being.

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The White Horsemen was explained by Smalashkap, November 1913, in Donghaizi (present-day Mínghai), and published in Malov, S. E. 1967. Jazyk zheltyx ujgurov. Teksty i perevody. Moscow. 145, no. 128.

Malov further mentions a protective deity, ïñ'l'taq, who, according to the Yugur of the steppe, is dressed in white, rides a white horse, and has a white face, but who, according to the Yugur of the mountains, is dressed in black, rides a black horse, and has a black face. The term ïñ'l'taq is actually a Tibetan loanword, gans-bdag, a class of mountain deities and earth deities.

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