I called on the tribal leaders and said, ‘To avoid absurd rumours tomorrow, tell me now if there are worthy candidates among you and let them also vote.’ When I, showing respect, offered you this, the answer followed, ‘There is no such rock that can withstand the impact of the wave; there is no such person who is more reliable than you’. So they picked me alone. Why then did they not say that you have your own proposal? JAMUKHA: We didn’t have a rock that could withstand the wave; we didn’t have support except for ourselves. GENGHIS KHAN: After which your envy grew like that of a red bull? JAMUKHA: Whatever you want to call it, it is your will. Let’s not stretch this conversation out more than necessary. Have your justice soon. GENGHIS KHAN: (To the guards) Execute him in the Mongolian way. Let the soul not be tormented and not a drop of blood spilt. JAMUKHA: Before dying I will ask, so give me an answer, Temujin. GENGHIS KHAN: Ask away. JAMUKHA: Your army did not have more than twenty-thousand the last time I checked; how could you have collected fifty-thousand soldiers in a single day? GENGHIS KHAN: (Laughing) We didn’t. Not a single warrior joined us. We simply surrounded you with fifty-thousand kindled lights. JAMUKHA: Frightened by the mass of the night lights, most of our army fled to the mountains. GENGHIS KHAN: (Laughs). Have you any other questions? What else do you want to know? JAMUKHA: When we were surrounded by those countless lights and the soldiers were seized by confusion, sometime after midnight an event took place that amazed everyone. One woman in a white robe looking like an angel, holding a sparkling sabre in her hand and in no way hiding the dead soldiers who had fallen around her, walked amongst their ranks and chanted the cherished words of the motif of the Holy ascetic lamas. ‘Save your soul! Save your soul! I have come to save you. If tomorrow the hour of death comes, everything will perish in vain and you will become mindless victims. The Creator did not create you for murder, but so that you can taste the bliss of life, he breathed a soul into you. Your bodies belong to you, but your souls

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