Origin of the currently reigning Manchu and Korean dynasties.
In the province of Khon-chion, in the district of Horien, in the village of O-tse-ami, lived Tsoi [leader of the nobility], and he had a young daughter Tsoi-si [daughter of Tsoi].
One day, when she woke up, she felt some kind of furry animal near her, which immediately crawled away.
She lit a torch, but there was no one in the room.
She told her parents about this, and after a long meeting, the following decision was made. If the beast comes again, she, pretending to be asleep, will tie the end of a ball of long silk thread to his leg.
That's what Tsoi-si did.
When the day came, a thread led Father Tsoi-si to a lake called Khan-ton-dze-duti.
The thread went under the water, and when the father pulled the thread, a beaver surfaced, dived again and did not appear again, and the thread came off.
Ten months later, Noy-si gave birth to a boy whose skin color was so yellow that he was named Norachi [red].
He grew up, was unsociable, and ended up marrying and settling on his father’s lake, because the beaver was his father. He loved water and swam, like his father, the beaver.
One day, the founder of the Ni-chai clan [the founder of the current Manchu dynasty], from the Kogn district, the village of Sorboy, saw in a dream that a dragon flew into the sky from the lake where the beaver lived, and a white old man who appeared at that time said to him:
- It was the beaver who died. Whoever sinks to the bottom of the lake where the beaver's palace stands and puts the bones of his father in the right room from the entrance will be the Chinese emperor, and whose bones lie in the left room will be the Korean emperor.
Waking up, Ni-chai dug up the bones of his father and with Tongama [the bone burrower] and his father’s bones went to Lake Khan-ton-dze-duti.
But since Ni-chai could not swim, he asked Norachi to place his father’s bones in the beaver’s palace. At the same time, Ni-chai deceived Norachi.
“I’ll tell you everything,” said Ni-chai, “there are two rooms: the right and the left.” Whose bones are on the right will be the Korean emperor, and whose bones are on the left will be the Chinese. Put your father's bones in the left, and the Korean crown will be enough for me.
This is how Ni-chai wanted to deceive Norachi.
But Norachi did just the opposite, and when asked by Ni-chai why he did this, he said:
“It’s better for your kind, but I just liked the right room better.”
Ni-chai had to make peace with his lot and asked Norachi for eternal friendship between their clans. Norachi agreed.
More time passed, and Norachi had three sons one after another. The third, Khan, had a terrible, hairy face, and such a look that whoever he looked at fell dead.
Therefore, he never left the room and always sat with his eyes closed.
Ni-chai died, and his son had a dream that in a well, near Lake Han-ton-dze-duti, there lay a Chinese imperial saber. And again the white old man said to him:
— The owner of this saber is the Chinese emperor.
Therefore, when Ni-chai’s son woke up, he went to the lake, found a well there, and a saber in it.
Since everyone was already calling Khan the future ruler of China, Ni-chai’s son planned to kill him with this saber.
Taking advantage of the friendship of his fathers, he came to Norachi and asked him to show him Khan.
In vain Norachi tried to dissuade him, posing a danger. Ni-chai's son insisted, and due to friendship, Norachi could not refuse him.
But when Ni-chai’s son entered Khan’s room and he opened his eyes, although he did not look at the guest with them, Ni-chai’s son was so frightened that he laid his saber at Khan’s feet and said:
“You are the emperor, this saber belongs to you.”
Khan, without answering, closed his eyes, and Norachi hurried to take his guest out of his son’s room.
“I know my son,” said Norachi, “save yourself quickly.” I will give you his horse, which came out to him from the lake and which runs a thousand miles an hour.
[Lee is about a third of a mile.]
Ni-chai's son jumped on this horse and disappeared when Han came out of his room with a saber in his hands.
-Where is the one who brought this saber? - he asked his father.
- He left.
“We need to catch up with him and kill him so that he doesn’t spoil the matter with a premature announcement.”
Khan wanted to mount his horse, but it turned out that it was on this horse that he disappeared.
“Then you can’t hesitate for a minute!”
And, having gathered his Manchus, Khan moved towards Beijing.
He was the first Manchu emperor.
He built many fortresses, and the stones for them were supplied from the sea by Natkho, the same Natkho who threw out the stones for the famous Wall of China. And when they asked who brought the stones from the sea, Natkho only stuck his terrible head out of the water for a moment.
The artist who was here managed to sketch it, and since then the head of Natkho, together with the sacred bird Khagi (stork), has served as decoration for the entrances to the temple.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru