Mountain Okzhetpes

Returning from a victorious campaign, Abylai Khan and his associates is located at the foot of the mountains of lake Burabay and began to divide the spoils of war. All shared, in addition to the beautiful Kalmyk. Some brave warriors wanted to marry her, each for its merits had a right to the prisoner. Abylai gave the girl the right to select her own husband. Belle ascended the mountain and raised his hand a white handkerchief. Whose arrow pierced the shawl, and he took to wife Kalmyk. Draw the arrow never hit the target. The enraged Khan ordered beauty down, but the proud prisoner rushed into the waters of the lake. And high rock were called Okzhetpes, which means "did not fly arrow".

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