Legend about mountain Kazygurt

In almost all cultures of the world, there are strikingly similar legends about the Flood - there are more than five hundred of them. All these legends have the same plot: mankind dies from the Flood, only one righteous person with his family is saved.

In the Kazakh legend of the Flood, it is said that an ark with 80 righteous people, headed by the Prophet Nuh, with many animals, birds and insects rushed along the boundless waves, having no shelter. Seven months, seven days and seven hours after the start of the flood, the ark sailed to Mount Kazygurt.

At first, people released several birds from the ark, so that they could find out if the waters of the global flood had left. Many birds flew away and did not return, and only the swallow flew back, carrying a green twig in its beak. Since then, the swallow has been a bird especially revered among the Kazakhs. In Kazakh fairy tales, the swallow does only good deeds. People landed on Mount Kazygurt and stayed on it.The ancient legend says: "A ship remained at the top of Kazygurt, because it is a sacred mountain and that the ship remained at the top of Kazygurt, and from there then peoples spread all over the world.

There is the following ancient Kazakh legend about the origin of its name. In the difficult time of hunger that followed the flood, the she-wolf violated the ban on killing the living. The wolf punished her. They began to call him a fair (Казы) wolf (Гурт). Kazygurt - became the cradle of new life after the flood, it bears the name of the Fair wolf.