Story 25. The “Konggrat” Tribe That First Ran Out of Arkana Kun

 

 

Story 25. The “Konggrat” Tribe That First Ran Out of Arkana Kun

In Story 24, through four episodes, the plot of the important historical drama related to Chinggis Khan’s ancestors regarding the “Golden Jar” was told. Now, we must verify and reveal the historical facts of such a great drama.

First of all, who was the “Konggrat” tribe that ran out of Arkana Kun before the other Mogol tribes, that is, the family that was explained in the introduction as “Great Goguryeo Clan = Goguryeo Clan” for easy understanding of the unfamiliar word, and what was their relationship with Chinggis Khan’s ancestors? 

First of all, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> tells the story that Chinggis Khan’s ancestors who entered “Arkana Kon = Yalu (Amnog) River County” and the Mogol tribe escaped “Yalu (Amnog) River County” at some point. This could be called the “Great Escape of the Mogol Tribe from Arkhina Khun.” <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia states that the “Konggrat Tribe” escaped from Arkhina Khun  before other Mongol tribes. This tribe was a tribe descended from one of the Kiyan and Nekuz, and its founder was a person with a strange and mysterious name, “Golden Jar.” The story unfolds as we look at the content recorded in Rashid ad-Din’s <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>

.“A tribe known to have originated from two people who entered Ergene Qun. As the number of their clan increased through reproduction and childbirth, the name Mongol became their collective name, and the word Mongol began to appear during their time. These Mongols were only one race belonging to the Turkic race, but because the grace of God was with them, in about 400 years, many tribes came from them, and they became more numerous than other races.

When the number of people living between the mountains and forests increased and the space became narrow, they consulted among themselves what would be a good way to get out of the rugged valleys and narrow mountain paths. ∙∙∙∙ They brought in a great amount of firewood and coal and piled them up, ∙∙∙∙ They blew seventy huge bellows at once, and the valley melted, and the iron flowed endlessly from it, and a path appeared. They ∙∙∙∙ came out onto the grassland. ∙∙∙∙The original tribe belonging to Kiyan was said to have blown the bellows. The tribe known as Nekuz and its tribe, the Uryangkat, were also said to have blown them.”

According to this <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, as a result of the “Great War of the Tatar Mogol (Mongol) Tribe,” descendants were born to Kiyan and Nekuz who had gone into hiding in Arkana Kun. Their descendants multiplied and formed several tribes: 1) the original tribe belonging to Kiyan, 2) the tribe known as Nekuz, and 3) the Uryangkat tribe, a tribe of [Nekuz]. These Mogol tribes escaped from the “Yalu (Amnog) River Ne County” at some point. This dictionary was “The Escape of the Mogol Tribe from Arkana Kun.”

However, long before this incident, the “Konggrat Tribe,” whose progenitor was the “Golden Jar,” escaped from Arkana Kun before the other tribes. This record can be found in the <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>as follows:

 “Kunggrat Tribe ∙∙∙∙ This tribe came from the two people who entered Ergene Kun. According to the story, this Kongrat tribe came out before the others without consulting them, and in a hurry, they stepped on the other tribes' bellowses. The Mongols believed that most of the pain in the feet of the Kongrat was due to this behavior, and that the feet were guilty of this mistake. In the past, other Mongols were indignant that [the Kongrat] came out first, and were hostile to them.” Judging from the word “in a hurry” here, they ran out very quickly, for some unknown reason.

In particular, “bellows” was a place where iron was smelted and blacksmiths worked to make household and farm implements, weapons, etc. in ancient times. Judging from the fact that they stepped on such a place, they probably picked up the weapons they had made there and ran out of Arcana Con in a hurry because they were about to engage in some kind of imminent battle. They clearly ran out in a hurry to participate in some kind of war. This record states that the “Kungrat (Kongrat) tribe”, whose progenitor was the “Golden Jar,” “went out of the Arcana Cone before them without consulting with others, so other Mongols were indignant and hostile toward them.” “Because they hastily stepped on the other tribes’ bellowses, the Mongols said that most of the pain in the feet of the Kungrats was due to their fault.”

This content was not included in “The Golden Book of the Korras Tribe” <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>. The reason for this is that “the Golden Book” was a history book that basically regards the “Khorras Tribe”, the lineage of Alan Kowa, the 10th ancestor of Genghis Khan, as authentic and attempts to describe its genealogy. Therefore, <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>attempted to describe the “Golden Book” based on this genealogy. <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries> can be called the “The golden book of the Korras tribe.” On the other hand, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> described the overall genealogy of all Mongolian tribes, so it also recorded parts that were not included in <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>. On the other hand, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> did not describe the specific genealogy and history of the “Khorras” tribe in <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>, the “golden book” of the “Khorras” tribe, the lineage of Alan Kowa, the 10th ancestor of Genghis Khan, for that very reason. Because of this difference, it is better to look at the genealogy of the “Khorras” tribe in <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>, but it is better to look at <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> for the story of the origin of the “Konggrat tribe.” What kind of tribe is this “Konggrat tribe”, and from whom did it come?

<Secret History of the Mongols> answers. “The family of Burte Ujin, the wife of Genghis Khan, was that tribe.” She was engaged to Temujin at the age of 10 and later gave birth to the four brothers Jochi, Chagadai, Agaday, and Tolui, as well as their sisters, for Genghis Khan. Therefore, she could be called the “mother of the Khans of the Four Khanates of the Mongol Empire.” They were also called “Honggirat (洪吉剌)” or “Konggirat (廣吉剌)” in the Yuan History and the Jin History. Here, the Four Khanates refered to the countries ruled by the four brothers of Jochi Ulus (Russian Ukraine region), Ilkhanate (Persia, Afghanistan, Iraq), Chagatai Ulus (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.), and the Great Yuan Ulus (Mongolia, China, Tibet, Manchuria, etc.) who were descendants of Tolu.

Many scholars from many countries around the world have been asking what kind of tribe this “Konggrat tribe” was, from whom it came, and from which of the two legendary ancestors of Genghis Khan, Kiyan and Nekuz, did they come, and where did they originally live? And what kind of clan was their relationship with the lineage of “Genghis Khan,” their son-in-law? No scholar or professor has ever specifically answered these questions.

Nevertheless, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> was writing. “From the descendants of the youngest brother, Tusbudaun, among the three brothers who became the ancestors of the three major tribes of the Konggrat tribe, the Korras tribe came, and from this tribe, Alan Kowah, the ancestor of Genghis Khan, came. Also, from the descendants of the eldest brother, Chulluk Mergen, among the three ancestors of the three major tribes, the Konggrat tribe came, and became the lineage of Burte Ujin.” Then who was the “Golden Jar,” the common ancestor of the three Konggrat tribes? Also, what kind of relationship did he have with “Kyan” and “Nekuz”? Also, who exactly were the three brothers who became the progenitors of these three Kongrat tribes in Eastern history? What on earth did their clan name “Kongrat” mean?

[Kongrat tribe]

[Golden Jar]

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[Churluk Mergen]  [Kubai Sire]    [Tusbuda]

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[Kongrat tribe]      [Yekiras tribe]   [Korras tribe]

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[Burte Ujin]                           [Genghis Khan]