Ksenia Kardonova relays a legend about the mangas monster and burkhan: My mother told me a legend that in the olden days there lived a mangas (a monster) that caused people trouble all the time. People decided to kill him and when they began to beat him hard, mangas ascended to the sky. As he was taking off, someone cut him in half. The lower part fell to the ground, and the upper went up in the sky. From the bottom, poisonous reptiles appeared, and the upper part became Arakha, a dragon that swallows the Sun or the Moon. But since mangas did not have a lower part – the sun and the moon drop out from it. Another legend, at dawn burkhan (a buddha) descends on the earth from heaven in disguise. He may appear as a camel calf or as a bad-looking elderly man. That is why you should not offend anyone, it could be burkhan. I think that this legend teaches not to harm the unfortunate and the disadvantaged.