Editing Child abandonment (section)

===Upbringing===
The strangers who take up the child are often shepherds or other herdsmen. This befell not only Oedipus, but also [[Cyrus the Great|Cyrus II]] [[Achaemenid Empire|of Persia]], [[Amphion and Zethus]] and several of the characters listed above. [[Romulus and Remus]] were suckled by a wolf in the wilderness, but afterward, again found by a shepherd. This ties this motif in with the genre of the [[pastoral]]. This can imply or outright state that the child benefits by this pure upbringing by unspoiled people, as opposed to the corruption that surrounded his birth family.

Often, the child is aided by animals before being found; [[Artemis]] sent a bear to nurse the abandoned [[Atalanta]], and [[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] was also nursed by a bear before being found.<ref>Jane Yolen, ''Touch Magic,'' p. 73. {{ISBN|0-87483-591-7}}.</ref> In some cases, the child is depicted as being [[Feral children in mythology and fiction|raised by animals]]; however, in actuality, feral children have proven to be incapable of speech.<ref>Jane Yolen, ''Touch Magic,'' p. 74. {{ISBN|0-87483-591-7}}.</ref>

The theme of young boys being raised by leading women of the early [[Mongol Empire]] is prominent in sources such as the ''[[Secret History of the Mongols]]''. For example, the young [[Shigi Qutuqu]] was found wandering a destroyed [[Tatars|Tatar]] camp, he was taken to either [[Genghis Khan]]'s wife Börte or mother [[Hoelun]] to be raised.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ratchnevsky |first=Paul |chapter=Sigi Qutuqu (c. 1180–c. 1260)|date=1993 |title=In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200–1300) |publisher=[[Harrassowitz Verlag]] |location=[[Wiesbaden]] |editor-last=de Rachewiltz |editor-first=Igor |editor-link=Igor de Rachewiltz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kG45gi7E3hsC |pages=75–77|isbn=9783447033398 }}</ref>