Mongolia Order of the Thunderbolt?

[Bob]

http://www.geocities.com/cintasdemedallas/asia/mongolia.gif

Too quiet on GMIC, so let's add something to figure out!

[Ed_Haynes]

"Thunderbolt" is a better translatioon for "vajra" than the unfortunate "precious rod" with which we have been stuck.

See, of course, http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5412

Antonio seems to be representing the second class ribbon?

Edited June 5, 2006 by Ed_Haynes

[Stogieman]

Drat..... saw the title and thought "something new"... Ed are you taking language lessons for the impending expedition??

[Ed_Haynes]

More on "vajra" from a manuscript I am doing final illustration reconcilliation on just now:

. . . Indra?s Vajra (the all-powerful mythic weapon on the ancient Vedic god of war). Great mythology surrounds this mysterious weapon of Vedic origin. It was the amogha astra (unfailing weapon) used by Indra to kill Vitra, the demon of drought, to release life-giving waters for the benefit of mankind. In Puranic literature it is said that this Vajra was made out of the asthis (bones) of Dadhici, a sage of high attainments, for the benefit of the world.

And . . .

Ed are you taking language lessons for the impending expedition??

Teach yourself Mongolian. For all the good that is likely to do?! And just as I start working on it in Cyrillic, the language is being switched back to the pre-1940 script!

[Guest Rick Research]

"And just as I start working on it in Cyrillic, the language is being switched back to the pre-1940 script!"

No, no! That is CRAZY! You tell them when you are there to go back to the 1939 Latin alphabet! Are they TRYING to make themselves permanently out of international interaction?

Mongolian in the "universal script" is learnable. UIGHUR squeegles--ugh!!!