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In the East Kazakhstan region, 110 km to the west of Barshatas village, Ayagoz district, on the northern slope of Zhorga Mountain, healing mineral springs flow. One of them is called Aulie kyz. Its water has many healing properties, is useful for thinning the blood and improving blood circulation. There is one legend associated with the Aulie Kyz spring.
In the middle of the 19th century, a bai from the Matay Sadyr tribe lived in our area. And he had an only daughter. One day, when the bai and his daughter were returning from the famous Koyanda fair, the girl became seriously ill.
Exhausted, she turns to her father: “Father, I’m dying… Apparently, this is my fate… Fulfill my last request – bury my body at the source where the horses splashed on the way to the fair.”
When the father and daughter get to the source, the girl leaves for another world. The father fulfills his daughter’s request and buries her body at the spring. Realizing that due to the onset of winter and cold weather he will not have time to build a mazar for his daughter, the bai decides to return to these parts next year and leaves home.
At this time, a young dzhigit Ainan was hunting in the vicinity of Zhorga Mountain. While chasing a fox, Ainan falls off his overheated horse from high cliffs near the mouth of a spring. However, he remains safe. Dzhigit understands that he owes his miraculous salvation to some mysterious forces. He asks local residents and learns that a young girl is buried near the spring. In gratitude for saving his life, dzhigit with the onset of spring, erects a mazar on the girl’s grave.
When the bai arrives at his daughter’s grave, he is surprised to see that the mazar has already been built. He finds out who built the mazar and decides to thank Ainan and his assistants.
Despite objections from Ainan, bai donates all the cattle he brought with him as a gift to the builders of the mazar. Since then, the rocky cliff from which dzhigit Ainan fell is called Ainan ushkan, and the source where the girl is buried began to be called Aulie Kyz (Holy Girl).
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