The Nine

explained by SMALASHKAP

 

The dwelling of the Nine is a copper city. It is as big as seventy arm-spans. There are nine gates. There are nine dragons. In the dragons, in the front, is a Khan. One deity has thirteen consecrated ones. Each dragon from the Nine has a banner, a blue banner.

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The Nine 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. 146, no. 131.
 

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