- PII
- S0869-54150000392-4-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S50000392-4-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 6
- Pages
- 107-122
- Abstract
- The article examines the archaic ideas of winter time measurement at nine day intervals among the Oirats (the Western Mongols) and similar views among the Khalkha-Mongols, Buryats, Tuvans, and Chinese. The author argues that the earliest time measurement goes back to the common Mongolian tradition of measuring only the cold winter time, while leaving the rest of the year unmeasured. This is further confirmed by a Kalmyk legend of the calendar origin. The author relates such time measurement to Mongolian people's notions of countable and uncountable objects.
- Keywords
- The archaic calendar, time, winter time, the Oirats and the Khalka Mongols, Buryats, Tuvinians, Kalmyks
- Date of publication
- 28.10.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
- Number of purchasers
- 1
- Views
- 795
RAS History & PhilologyЭтнографическое обозрение Ethno review
- ISSN (Print) 0869-5415
- ISSN (Online) 3034-6274
OB ODNOI TRADITSII MONGOL'SKIKH NARODOV [ON A TRADITION OF MONGOLIAN PEOPLES]
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