Rashid al-Din Hamadani

For Genghis himself, however, even that would pale in comparison.

Certain historians, such as Rashid al-Din, would make the claim that Genghis had specifically instructed his followers to bury him near Mount Liu Pan, near where he died in modern Ningxia, China, after taking a fancy to a particular vantage point amidst a lone tree on the mountain slopes in the waning days of his life.

al-Din states that Genghis' followers, however, posthumously ignored this order and wished to take him all the way back to Mongolia proper, to the holy slopes of Burkhan Haldun.

but it was August, and the Mongols had little or no knowledge of embalming practices, so you can imagine where that would have quickly gone.

It's hard to explain, but there's patterns in there, arcane mathematics charting the occult systems across the globe.

They're in a constant state of flux, but I can see the general shape, and I think that if I can compare what they looked like during Rashid al-Din's time with how they are today, it might give me an idea of how and why supernatural things are happening.

But it's so indirect in the book, so I need to decode it before I can do any of this.

It's like linear algebra and non-linear algebra had a baby, and there's some papers around here by Chizuko Mifune that may help me with my translation, which is why I came.