JETI-OGUZ
In ancient times, there lived a great and greedy bai by Issyk-Kul. He drove his herds to the jailoo. When all the livestock was driven there, he began to count them. Seven red bulls were missing. The bai strictly ordered his dzhigits to find them. The dzhigits searched and asked people if they had seen the seven bai's bulls. The people replied to the bai's workers that the seven bulls had gone through the gorge. The dzhigits rode through the entire gorge, combed the forests, but found no traces of the seven bulls.
Finally, they noticed bull tracks leading to the other side of the river. When the dzhigits crossed the river, they saw seven red petrified bulls.
It is said that when the wolves attacked the bulls, they lined up closely together, leaned forward, bowed their heads, and thus turned to stone, becoming seven red rocks. And they still stand like that.
Since the discovery of the seven red bulls, these rocks, the gorge, and the river have been called Jeti-Oguz.
SEVEN BLOODIED ROCKS
This happened a long, long time ago. There lived a wealthy bai. He had seven sons. Time passed — the bai grew old, and his sons grew up and matured. In his old age, the bai decided to divide his wealth among his sons. When he was dividing his countless herds, flocks, and livestock, seven calves went missing. They searched for a long time but could not find them. Soon the bai died. The sons began to live separately. A considerable amount of time passed, and the calves were found. They had grown and become large bulls. The brothers saw them, and their eyes lit up at this treasure. Each wanted to grab a bigger and fatter piece. None of the brothers yielded. A quarrel began among them, a fight to the death, and blood was shed. A wise old shaman saw the inevitable fratricide and, to prevent it, turned the seven bulls into seven huge bloody rocks. They still stand not far from the southern shore of Issyk-Kul. They are called Jeti-Oguz — seven bulls.
On the way from Jeti-Oguz to Issyk-Kul, a saddle-shaped mountain can be seen in the distance, cut across with a multi-meter slice facing the travelers. It is called the Khan's Throne.
It is said:
The Kyrgyz living in the Issyk-Kul valley had no khan. The khan of a neighboring tribe decided to give them his son as a khan. The young khan rode to the Issyk-Kul Kyrgyz on a mare. Mules began to overpower her. They pushed the mare along with the rider off the saddle-shaped mountain. The father, upon learning of his son's death, sat on that mountain and ordered all the mules to be driven off it. Since then, the mountain where the khan sat at the place of his son's death has been called the Khan's Throne.
