Bar Hebraeus’ Chronography How the Mongols Cleaved to the Worship of Image
X- Formerly the MONGOLS had no literature and no Faith (or, Religion) of their own, but they knew one God, the Creator of the Universe, and some of them confessed that heaven was God, and they called it so. [And this they did] until they ruled over the people of the UIGUR TURKS, and they found that there were among them certain men who were sorcerers and who were called ‘KAMAYE’ (i.e. Enchanters). We have heard many who testified concerning them, saying, ‘We heard the voice of the devils who held converse with them through the openings of the tents’. And the secret...
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