Town · Self-governing peoples of Mongolia and the Steppe · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Cape Burkhan (Olkhon)

The rock cape on the west coast of Olkhon island at Khuzhir, the great shamanic site of the Baikal Buryats in the later centuries.

For 1200 the cult is inferred from the later use; no source describes it. Baikal is frozen in January and people cross the ice.

Who holds it

Title
The Buryat ancestors of the west shore
Since
not known
Born
not known
Family
not known
Confidence
low

How things stand that morning

Sacred rock; no structure.

Council

none; no town

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Later ethnography; inference.

Sources and studies

  1. Wikipedia, Mongol campaigns in Siberia

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.