The telling
The otağ is the khan's tent and counts as the centre of the homeland. Its door faces east, its hearth stands at the middle, and where one sits is set by one's place among the people.

The Middle World · Birch
A great tent with its door open. The nomad's home: taken down, carried, raised again the same.
The otağ is the khan's tent and counts as the centre of the homeland. Its door faces east, its hearth stands at the middle, and where one sits is set by one's place among the people.