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Shyvlan-baba.

Trip to Sumbar valley in Turkmenistan.

Shyvlan-baba, patron of mad. According to the Turkmen beliefs, already in the childhood this feast has Arab, Persian, etc. languages down to a science.
Mazar Shyvlan-baba is near Garrygal at the foot of a hill Syunt-Hasar.
It is considered that if in this mazar to place for night of the connected insane, then by the morning it becomes healthy.
The local legend narrates that once Shyvlan-baba saw a feather and ran behind it, but, without having caught up, asked the teacher a question - whether he saw it on what the teacher told as if it flew through the mountain.
With Shyvlan-baba despair loudly sighed and from his sigh the mountain lit up.
Since then on it nothing grows, and stones remained black from the fire there.

Authority:
On materials of information department of the State committee of Turkmenistan on tourism and sport. "Religious and spiritual monuments to Central Asia". Author M. Hashimov. Saga publishing house, 2001.

Photos:
By V. Komarov. http://infoabad.com/vs-o-turkmenistane/shibli-baba-isceljayuschii-dushu-...