{"id":706,"date":"2008-01-19T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=706"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:33:09","slug":"coaxing-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/coaxing-words\/","title":{"rendered":"coaxing words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mongolembassy.com\/eng_aboutmongol\/culture.asp\">Mongol Embassy<\/a> website: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their many years of nomadic life, the Mongols have developed their own specific techniques of handling livestock.  One technique employs <em>toig<\/em>, a special coaxing word, which is uttered or rather sung when a ewe is being coaxed into accepting a rejected lamb. The word <em>toig <\/em>is used with sheep only; for goats, the word is <em>choig<\/em>; for camels, <em>hoos<\/em>. In the latter instance, the <em>morin huur<\/em> (horsehead fiddle) accompanies the singing. While including a ewe to suckle a rejected lamb, the following words, for example, are sung:<\/p>\n<p>The mandarin duck has arrived, The mugwort has sprung up, your udder is full,<br \/>\nKeeping it away, why do you reject it? Toig, toig, toig<\/p>\n<p>This is sung gently, over and over again, until the ewe suckles the lamb. When a mother camel is being coaxed into accepting a rejected or strange calf, it is said to break into tears at the gentle sound of <em>hoos <\/em>and the enchanting melody of the <em>morin huur<\/em>, sung and played by someone skilled in the art of casting spells on animals. The words are more than simple calls and have become absorbed into poems and songs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mongol Embassy website: In their many years of nomadic life, the Mongols have developed their own specific techniques of handling livestock. One technique employs toig, a special coaxing word, which is uttered&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}