Two young men pointed at Ulysses’ thick beard, the braver one reached out and touched it. Since the first days in Mongolia, Ulysses’ beard has become somewhat of an attraction.
Eric recently got given a book called Chinggis’s Mongolia, printed for the 800th anniversary of the Great Mongolian State. A chapter lists the rules of having facial hair in Mongolia.
The book reads:
- - The man has to have a grandson.
- -The man has to be over 40 years.
- -It’s forbidden to have even a single tiny hair on the face when the father is still alive.
- -If a man desires to grow a beard, he would bow down before the oldest person and ask for permission.
Ulysses’ beard breaks almost all of the above rules.
Sarah McNair-Landry
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