Tree

Baiterek - World Tree There are two graves of the saint: the first, main and most famous, is located in the area of ​​Zhylybulak (warm stream) in the Sholakkorgan district of the South Kazakhstan region, the second in the area of ​​Ushtagan-Sazdy - Mangistau region. This duality is probably associated with the activities of the Sufi missionaries. In the 14th century, during the reign of the Golden Horde khans Uzbek and Zhanibek, with the declaration of Islam as the state religion, a mass of Islamic preachers poured from the South Kazakhstan region to the west, mainly to Mangistau and Ustyurt. They brought with them the cult of the saint, and then his name appeared on the map of Mangystau. One of the variants of the universe, a model of the world. It is found in all mythological traditions, including Kazakh mythology. Baiterek (literally, the primordial poplar, Mother poplar), as a world tree, connects all three levels, the upper one, with nine or seven layers of the sky, the middle, lower, with seven or nine layers of the universe. Its separate parts are parts of separate worlds: the roots of the underworld, the crown of the middle world, the branches and leaves of the upper world.