Uspensky V. [Review:] The Book on the Cult of Fire Among the Mongols. Compiled by Bulag (Bao Ligao). Huhehot: The People’s Publishing House of Inner Mongolia, 1995. – 15, 6, 642 pp. // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 2. No. 3. September 1996. P. 72.
The present book is an anthology of old Mongolian texts
dedicated to various aspects of fire-worship. This religious
practice was not uncommon for many peoples; but as Professor
Bulag justly stresses, for the Mongols, whose natural
environment was always severe, the availability of fire in
many cases meant physical survival, and its absence — inevitable
death. For this. and for many other reasons, fire
remained the object of worship among the Mongols from
times immemorial...
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