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mountain”or“Agshuun”.Regardingthisfact,theDarigangapasturelandhadnever
changeduntil1941.5
V
.A.Kazakevich,aRussianresearcher,didresearchamongtheDarigangasin1927.
HenotedaboutShiliinBogdthatitwasthemostEasternmountainintheDariganga
banner(Mong.khoshuu).Thatmountain’soldnamewasAgshuBogdomentionedby
JanmuintheNotesabouttheMongolianpastures(Мэн-гую-муцзи).AgshuBogdo
wasattheborderoffourbanners.6
ThethirdmapofDarigangawasmadein1931-1941aspartoftheDornodprovince
andtherethemountainwasmentionedas“ShiliinBogd”.Itwasclearthatthenamewas
changedinthefirsthalfofthe20thcentury.
ItcouldberelatedtothefactthatDarigangasoftengavenicknamestovarious
places.Forinstance,eventhoughtheirmainworshippedmountainisnamedofficially
Dari,theycallitAltanovoo.Similarily,Darigangasmighthavecalledthemountainas
ShiliinBogdinsteadofAgshuun.Furthermore,ShiliinBogdbecametheofficialname
ofthatmountaininthe20thcentury.Interestingly,nowadaysnativesalsocallit‘Bogd’
ineverydaytalks.
AfamouswriterfromDariganga,Maam,describedthelandscapeofhishomeland
inhisnovelGazarshoroo:
HillsofSunudvan
SteppeofEguzerkhutagt
PlateauofDariganga.7
MainlylocalpeoplewatchtheDarigangaareawhichismixedzoneofsteppeand
highland.ThesouthernborderofDarigangaistheShiliinGolprovinceinInnerMongolia,
China.Thenameoftheprovinceoriginatesfromariver’sname.Etymologically,the
namemeans‘riverofaplateau’.Geographically,landscapesofDarigangaandtheShiliin
Golprovincearesimilartoeachother.AndShiliinBogdisthehighestmountaininthe
Darigangaplateau.Therefore,localpeoplehonoreditasBogd,i.e.‘holy’mountain.Bogd
isanhonorificnameoreventitleformountains.Somemountainshigherthanothersin
theirvicinityarecalled“Bogd”,8suchasBogdKhan,AltaiTavanBogd,andKhanBogd.
InthemodernMongolianlanguage,shilisdefinedvariously:as1.‘arangeofhigh
mountain,’2.‘dipplacebehindamountain,’3.‘backofamountain’.9Invariousregions
ofMongoliathiswordmaybeunderstooddifferently.Inthiscase,theDarigangascall
plateaushil.
5
UnnumberedcollectionofmapsattheCenterofFilmandPhotoArchives,NationalCentralArchiveof
Mongolia.
6
V
.A.Kozakevich.NaMongol)skiestatuivDarigange.PoezdkavDarigangu.Leningrad1930,pp.61-62.
7
D.Maam.Gazarshoroo.Ulaanbaatar1976,p.244.
8
Davaa-OchirGanzorig.“Obooworship.”MAthesis.UniversityofOslo2008,p.38.
9
Ya.Tsevel.Mongolhelniitovchtailbartol)(BriefdictionaryofMongolianlanguage).Ulaanbaatar1966,
p.841.
