Case file · Folklore / legend
Disappearance of the Black Banner
The black spirit banner believed to hold Chinggis Khan's soul, guarded at a monastery founded under Zanabazar, vanished around 1937 during the Stalinist purges.
1937 CE · 47.05, 102.95 · status: account
The account
Mongolian tradition holds that a warrior's soul lives on in his sülde banner of horsehair; replicas are now kept by the state.