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At home with the Mongols

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The Mongol Empire

Mongols are not interested in the traditional western idea of wealth acquisition. What they want also is a circulation of wealth, like a form of redistribution. They believe that this is howa people can survive and continue over and over the generations. For them, what count is not only the living, it's the future generation and the dead. And the living have to share the wealth a with, you know, the dead and with the future generations. How? Through rituals, rituals of redistribution. You know, a maxing circulate, not only physically, but also spiritually.

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