Shamun Nabi is perhaps even more mysterious than Rajab Khalif, but most legends agree that he is the main one in the Mizdakhan gathering of saints. It is said that he was a preacher who came here long before the first Muslims, but even then foreshadowed the coming true faith. Shamun is clearly consonant with the name Simon, and perhaps this is something like the legends about the sermons of St. Andrew the First-Called in Kiev? After all, the apostles dispersed all over the world after the ascension of Christ, and legends find their traces all the way to the Arctic Circle and the Pacific Ocean. Among the apostles was Simon the Canonite, and Peter, the keeper of the gates of Paradise, had his full name Simon Peter, and there was strong Nestorianism in pre-Muslim Central Asia. There are many legends about Shamun Nabi in general, and the only thing they have in common is that he preached here even before the adoption of Islam. So, in one of the legends, he was a preacher-warrior, and challenged King Giaur (the Infidel) to a duel - he agreed out of pride, but in the heat of the fight he threw round grains at the Shamun's feet, the hero rolled on them and fell to his knees, however, before Giaur could decapitate the hero, the Shamun dog sensed unfortunately, he dug an underground passage and tore up the villain. Shamun, however, unable to bear the shame of kneeling in front of Gyaur, cut off his legs, which he would regain only at God's judgment. At the mausoleum, anyway, the pole of the feast (patron saint), dilapidated in Khorezm and devoid of a flag

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