Alan Gua
| Alan Gua | |
|---|---|
| Princess of The Mongol Khori Tümed Tribe | |
Alan Gua and her sons, from Jami' al-tawarikh, by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani | |
| Born | between mid-9th Centuries (Present Mongolia) |
| Died | early-10th Centuries (Present Mongolia) |
| Husband | Dobun Mergen (later remarried to Bayad servant) |
| Children | Begünütei Belgünütei Bukha Khatagi Bukhatu-Salji Bodonchar Munkhag |
| House | Khori Tümeds |
| Father | Qorilartai Mergen |
| Mother | Bargujin Gua |
| Religion | Tengrism |
Alan Gua (Mongolian: Алун гуа, Alun gua, lit. "Alun the Beauty". Gua or Guva/Quwa means beauty in Mongolian born mid 9th Centuries – died early 10th Centuries) was a Mongolian Clan Princess and semi-mythical figure from The Secret History of the Mongols, as she was heavily mythologized as well as few parts of histories, she was a eleven generations after the greyish white wolf and the red doe, and eleven generations before Genghis Khan. According to sources of The Secret History of the Mongols, Alan Gua was daughter of a Qorilartai Mergen who was the Chief of a Khori Tümeds Clan, and his wife Bargujin Gua, the daughter of a Barqudai Mergen, a man who was a Lord of the Köl Barquǰin Clan of Lowland.
Her five sons are described as the ancestors of the various Mongol clans. (That is, the Dörvöd are said to have been the descendants of Alan Gua's brother-in-law, Duva Sokhor, and the origins of the Khori-Tumed and Uriankhai are not explained at all.) She also figures in the Central Asian version of the parable of the five arrows, known in Western sources as The Old Man and his Sons.