Jeti-Oguz Geological Section

Jeti-Ögüz rocks are located on the northern slope of the Teskei Ala-Too ridge. The Jeti-Ögüz's exposed rock strata are 27.82-5.33 million years old. The rock formations were deposited during the Upper Oligocene-Miocene (Kyrgyz Formation). 

The thickness of the Kyrgyz Formation in this area reaches 1940 m. In a number of geographically disconnected parts of the Kyrgyz Formation, the researcher discovered numerous fossils of ancient flora and fauna such as giraffe (Samotherium sp.,) antelope (Antilope sp., Gazella sp.), small deer (Cervidae), tortoise (Stylemus karakolensis, Testudo sp.), hyena (Ictitherium hipparionum), ostracods (Lineacypris, Ilyocypris errabundis), mollusks (Eulota sp., Viviparus sp.), as well as fossils of plants, spores, and. This area is very important for biostratigraphic studies.

Jeti-Ögüz means “seven oxen.” The legend has it that back in olden times, there were two young twin boys named Asan and Üsön. After their father passed away, they started looking after rich man's calves to provide for themselves and their mother. 

One day when they were herding the calves up in the mountains, a fog descended on the mountains, and it started snowing heavily. The twins drove the herd back to the valley, but upon arrival, they realized that seven calves were missing. 

The greedy rich man scolded the twins and ordered them to return only after finding the missing claves. The twins also went missing and never returned. The twin boys' mother went looking after her sons. 

She wandered for many months and accidentally came across huge oxen grazing in the mountains. Those oxen were the seven calves that had gone missing a long time ago. 

She lamented that she had lost her twin sons because of those oxen and cursed the seven oxen so that the latter turned into rocks. That is how this majestic landform is told to have appeared here.