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Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens -- Encore Presentation

34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History

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The Father Mountain and the Mother Earth

Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan always honored the male and female principal in his religion. He called like you would say mother water and father sky or mother earth, but he always honored that. Mongolia today has four hot tune rivers, four rivers that never run dry. In Mongolian language, any water that doesn't want to drive is called queens. That's the word Hautun. They are still there more than 800 years after all this happened. And women are still very active in Mongol society.

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