The Mysterious Cave of Konyr-Auliye
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East Kazakhstan Region
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Everything that is known of this cave, is similar both on true and false at the same time. Local people say that there are three caves called Konyr-Auliye ("auliye" – sacred, the Saint) in Kazakhstan. According to the legend, three Saint predictors didn't get to Noah's Ark – places weren't anywhere. Then, having made a raft, they tied it to the ship. However, during a storm, the raft came across a reef and cut off. Three predictors appeared on logs on which were salvaged but scattered them in different directions. After water recession, each of them founded the sacred place on the earth. Such is a legend...

Since ancient times people at Konyr-Auliye behaved especially, keeping purity, as in the temple. Huge is a popularity of the curing force of this cave at sterility, married couples come here to ask reproduction.

However, the ritual demands that only the woman remained to spend the night in a cave. Here under dark crests, the underground lake which gives new life to all in it bathed was stretched, miraculously acting on health. According to the legend at the lake Kazakhs after bloody fights healed the wounds.

Cold water that can pull together extremities with a cramp at once, intolerably aches bones. And at the same time it is necessary not just urinate legs, and to steep in this liquid ice from three to seven times!

Data on this cave goes back too far antiquity, but for the first time scientifically it is investigated and described at the beginning of the XX century. It was written by Mukhtar Auezov in the novel "Way of Abay". In the archive, there are a historical document "Notes of the Semipalatinsk Section of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society" dated 1912. In this issue of the magazine article of the official Bryukhanov who described the lake and a cave draws attention: "Behind the Chingiz ridge, having rounded the foot of Mount Aktas from the North-West and having left to the Chaganka River, it is possible to see an entrance to Konyr-Auliye's cave.

Ridge Aktas ("A white stone") consists of the white calcareous breed and quite justifies the name: it is from far away noticeable on a green background thanks to the whiteness of the tops.

Entrance to a cave so narrow that the person can pass only sideways. Hiatus height is a little more than two meters. But meter through one and a half entering gets on the spacious platform. The bottom of a cave is covered with black acute and slippery stones on which it is necessary to pass. The parentage of a cave is covered with a gloom, same dense what will meet you in the cave.

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