Just Wow!
- How, then, does he establish himself as a leader of his family?
- Well, it is not accepted right away that he will be the leader of his family.
- To be a leader involves struggle.
- You win through struggle, through vanquishing others.
- It’s not as if by being the oldest son of Hoelun
- he has the right to become the leader of his family.
- There’s a story that’s told of one of his half brothers
- who is so much stronger than him that when they went out fishing,
- his brother would take away the fish.
- When they went out to shoot birds, the half brother would take away the bird.
- And Temujin went to complain to his mother, and his mother ignored him.
- And so Temujin arranged with his four brothers
- to sneak up behind the half brother and to shoot him dead.
- At that point, he became the leader of his family.