Story 57. The “Kenbe’ut” tribe that Genghis Khan’s 6th great-grandfather Kaido took as his son-in-law is none other than the “Hambo-Ut” tribe.

 

Story 57. The “Kenbe’ut” tribe that Genghis Khan’s 6th great-grandfather Kaido took as his son-in-law is none other than the “Hambo-Ut” tribe.

 Another thing to note is that after the disaster of the Kaido brothers was resolved, Kaido and his 5th cousin Ajebi Nachin went to Mongolia. Where did they live before they went there?

 When the Jalair people killed the Kaido brothers, the youngest son Kaido was living as his son-in-law in the village of the “Kenbe’ut tribe.” Also, his 5th cousin Ajebi Nachin, who hid him, went to this tribe before that. What kind of tribe was the “Kenbe’ut tribe”?

 Professor Kim Ho-dong's translation of <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> points out that <Yuanshi, Yuan Dynasty History> "Volume 1, Taejo Bongi" records that "Nachin (納鎭, Napjin) was in Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol)." However, Professor Kim Ho-dong notes that "there is no confirmation in other historical materials as to what tribe Kenbe'ut is."

 

   Fig 1.uploaded by Alexander A. Shchetnikov/ Google

In contrast, the "Kenbe'ut" mentioned in <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> is in terms of the expression in <Geumsa,Jin Dynasty History>, it is "Hambo (函普)-Ut." “Hambo (函普)-ut” and “Kenbe’ut” translated by Professor Kim Ho-dong sound almost the same, but the vowels are slightly different.

 In the original of <Tarikha-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, it can be read as either “Khanbaut” or “Kenbe’ut.” This is because of the characteristics of Persian writing that does not properly indicate vowels. This is a record showing that “Kenbe’ut” is “Khanbaut,” or “Hambo (函普)-ut,” meaning “Hambo (函普)-ssi,”

 It is the “Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol) department (部)” that Nachin (納眞, Napjin) was said to have taken as his son-in-law in <Yuanshi, Yuan Dynasty History> “Volume 1, Taejo Bongi”. This “Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol) Bu (部)” is the descendant village of “Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae)”, the son of “Koro (烏魯오로)-Korai (胡來, Horae)”, the eldest son of “Hambo (函普)”. Because “Bargo (八刺忽, Paljahol)” is the same name as “Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae)”, which has the same sound.

 In the end, “Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol) Bu (部)” means the descendant village of “Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae)”, the grandson of Hambo, and refers to the land where he settled and the people of the village. It means a clan village of the Barkai (跋海) family. Kaido and Nachin of the Korras tribe were sons-in-law in this village. Kaido and his uncle Nachin, who were the 5th and 6th generation ancestors of Kori Mergen, also had a son-in-law relationship with the Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae) family, the grandson of Hambo, so the interpretation of “Kenteut” is proven correct.

 The Malgal name of this village is “Hambo (函普)-ssi” village, and its later Mongolian name is “Hambo (函普)-ut”, and in <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, it is written in Persian characters as “Kenbe’ut” or “Kanba’ut”.

 However, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, <Yuanshi, Yuan Dynasty History>, and even <Geumshi, Jin Dynasty History> did not record who the descendants of Hambo's grandson "Barkai", who was in the same lineage as his great-uncle Nachin and his great-nephew Kaido, were, or where the village they lived was.

 Therefore, we cannot say exactly where he lived. Therefore, we can infer. The place where Barkai's grandfather Hambo entered was Banan County (盤安郡) of Balhae.

This land is "Ajigo Village (阿之古寸) of Josin (女眞)" in the terminology of the reign of King Yejong of Goryeo in the 1110s, when this fact was recorded. That Balhae (渤海) Pan'an County (盤安郡) was already called "Wanyanbu (完顔部)'s Bogansu (僕幹水)", which was the origin of the Jin Dynasty, the previous dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty, when Taltal (脫脫) wrote the <Ginsa, Jin Dynasty History> in the 13th century.

 On the other hand, this "Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol) Bu (部)", where Kaidu (海都, Haedo) and Nachin (納眞, Napjin) were taken as sons-in-law, was the village of "Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae)", the grandson of "Hambo (函普)". Therefore, this “Barkai/Barga (跋海, Balhae)” village can only be “Josin (女眞)’s Ajigo Village, Wanyanbu (完顔部)’s Bokgansui (僕幹水).”

 However, the time of Hambo’s grandson Barkai’s youthful activity is around 918, the same as the time of Barga Baatar in Buryat legend, the grandson of Hambo’s younger brother Bohwalri, and the time of Balhae Makhadol Daesang Rang. However, “Kaido” is a 6th generation descendant of Balhae Makhadol.

The time of Kaido of the Korras tribe is logically 6 generations after Barkai, the grandson of Hambo of the Yekiras tribe, about 180 years later, around 1098.

 Considering their lineage and the influence of the early marriage system of the Korras tribe, as in the “generation chart of the Konggrat Tribe, the Yekires Tribe, and the Korras Tribe” as seen above, their era is normally the same as the 5th generation descendant of “Barkai”, the son of Kagorida (阿骨打, Agolta), and the 6th generation descendant of Barkai, Wanyan Zongjun (完顔 宗埈, 1119~1149).

 However, Kaido is the lineage of Wanyan Zongjun, the son of Kagorida (Agolta), but his father Dotom Menen died early, and Kaido himself is presumed to have married early, so he would have been a contemporary of a figure from the Yekiras tribe who was one or two generations higher than his lineage.

 In that case, the “Bargut (八刺忽, Paljahol)” section that Kaido and Nachin went to as their sons-in-law is the village of Koribor (Haekribal), the 4th generation descendant of Hambo’s grandson “Barkai (跋海, Balhae)”, or Kagorida (Agolta), the 5th generation descendant.

 This would be the Ban’an County of Balhae, or “Bokgansoo (僕幹水) of Wan’anbu (完顔部)”, or “Ajigochon (阿之古村) of Josin (眞).” However, as <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> says, it is also possible that they moved to Bargujin Tokum, which is on the border of present-day Mongolia.

 The era of Koribori (Hakribal), the 4th generation descendant of Barkai of the Yekiras tribe of the Josun (女眞), or Kagorida (Agolta), the 5th generation descendant, is the time when they conquered and unified the “Wanyan tribes”.

This was right before the Goryeo Yun Gwan (尹瓘) launched a large-scale conquest of the Josun (女眞) in 1107~1109.

 On the other hand, the abbreviation of “Wanyan tribe’s Bokgansoo (僕幹水)” is “Wanyan (完顔)mul (水).” Considering the pronunciation rules of the Tungusic language, which tend to articulate the final consonant sound in this word as a liaison and to liquefy and weaken the sound,

 That “Wanyan water” may be the origin of today’s “Onan Muren.” However, some scholars believe that Onan Muren originally came from Tungusic, not Mongolian.The Tungusic he speaks of is the original Chosin language.

 Today, the “Kerulen River” in Mongolia may have originally been a phonetic transcription of “Gye-lu-mul (桂樓水)” or “Koru-mul (Oruha).” Not far from that “Wan-an (完顔) water (水)”, today’s Hamheung, “Yara (耶懶)” at the time, otherwise known as “Kora-tang (曷懶甸, Galajeon)”, lived the “Yara (耶懶) tribe” of the “Durilikin” lineage, “people under the rule of the lineage of Nimgeum (Nekuz), the son of Dolihaeng (都利行).”

 They are the “Jalair tribe”, or Yalair (押刺而而, Abzaii) tribe. They were attacked by the “Josin-Kitai (女眞)” or the Yun-gwan of Goryeo or the “Kitai (契丹, 계단, Khitan)” of the Chunjo Emperor. As a result, a large population of 70,000 Kureen (housholds 家口), or 350,000 people, fled, and among them, 70 “Yara (耶懶) tribes” caused the Kaido brothers’ massacre.

However, immediately after the Kaido brothers’ massacre, the “other Jalair tribes”, as an apology to Kaido and Nachin, punished the 70 Jalair tribesmen who killed the Kaido brothers and killed them all, and made all their wives and children into Kaido’s servants.

 Then, Nachin and Kaido left their original residence and moved to other regions. Kaido settled in “Barqu’jin To’k’um” on the border of Mongolia, and Nachin settled in “Lower Onan River”. This is their migration route.

 Episode. Did the ancestors of Genghis Khan go to today’s Baikal “Barqu’jin To’k’um (Great County of Balhae)” during the time of Kaido?

 Now, let’s look at “Barqu’jin To’k’um” on the border of Mongolia, where Kaido went and settled, and “Lower Onan River” where his fifth cousin Ajebi Nachin went and settled. Are these two regions really the same as we think of today, Barqu’jin To’k’um in Buryatia and the Onan River in Mongolia?

 ​As Professor Kim Ho-dong reported in his research, the “Barqu’jin To’k’um” that Genghis Khan’s 6th generation ancestor Kaido moved to may actually be the “Barqu’jin To’k’um” of today’s Buryatia. It is known as the land of today’s “Kori-Buryat” and “Buryat 2 tribes.” It is true that Kaido himself, or at least his descendants, later ultimately went to “Barqu’jin To’k’um” of today’s Buryatia and “Borkan Khaldun” of Eastern Mongolia.

 However, the land that Kaido and his party moved to after the Jalayir tribe incident may actually be a completely different place from today’s “Barqu’jin To’k’um” of Buryatia. The “Bargojin Tokum” that Kaido moved to and settled in may have been “Bargajin/Byeolhaejin” located on our side of the Amnok River, located in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, today’s Hamgyeongbuk-do and Gilrimgol Gasaengi, which was called “Barkajin” at the time.

 Also, the “downstream of the Onan River” that Najin, or “Najin” in <Tarikh-e Monghul, Collected History of Mongolia>, went to was “downstream of the Wanyan (完顔) water”, which is today Hamheum or “Nachin. It could be “Najin (羅津)”, which is the same name as “Baatar”.

 In other words, today’s “Bargozin Tokum” and “Barkan Mountain (Borkan Mountain)” in Buryatia were named during the time of Khaidoh himself or later during the time of his descendants, when the Nirun Mongols moved northwest, they settled in the new land they arrived in and added the word “Daegun (大郡)” to the original hometown name “Bargazin/Barkayzin (別海鎭, 별해진)”, and named it “Bargozin Dokun (別海鎭 大郡, 별해진 대군)”.

 There are facts that prove this possibility. In today's Buryatia, there is a mountain called "Barkhan Mountain (uul)", which is exactly the same name as "Burkhaan (不咸, Bulham) Mountain (山) = Baekdu Mountain (白頭山)" in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

 Furthermore, there is also a place name called "Borkhaan Kaldon Mountain" in Khentii Mountain in Eastern Mongolia. This place name must have come from the place name "Borkhaan Koryo Land/Kaldon (不咸 曷懶甸, Bulham Galajeon)".

 However, the important point is that all three mountains exactly match the migration route and residential chain of the "Korras tribe of Alan Gowa", which later became the ancestor of the "Nilun Mongol", the tribe of Genghis Khan.

 This is exactly the same as the migration route of the Kori-Buryat people, descendants of Barga Baatar and his son Kori Mergen, who migrated from our land to Buryatia in the northwest and then to Eastern Mongolia