Genghis Khan in Folklore Legends of the Mongolian Peoples: Mythological Framework of Memory by Aleksand V. Isakov

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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí: The Portrait of a Cultural Connoisseur by Tunji Ọlaọpa

“…Yet we have just lost a cultural hero whose lifestyle and literary activities cut right to the heart of living for oneself and living for others. …”
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Identifying [between] Geser and Genghis Khan. Part 1: Contamination of Images in Folklore and Historical Memories of Central and Inner Asia by Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Evgenii V. Nolev

“…The paper delineates key clusters of folklore plots that identify Geser and Genghis Khan, namely: merger of the two images into one, genealogical succession, mythical kinship, identical semantic functions of the culture heroes. Conclusions. The image of demiurge Geser-Genghis is characteristic of South Siberian Turkic mythologies, while the Mongolic oral traditions distinguish between the images but tend to view them as ones with pronounced ties, and basically deify the characters. …”
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