Amyderýa was called the Oguz River until the era of 
Gorkut Ata.

In the old days, the group of stars known as Taurus (The Oxen) were called the group of Oguz stars. By the time the group of Oguz stars rose, the Oguz were on the plateaus; and by the time they sank, the Oguz were in their winter quarters.

What is now known as the Hazar (Caspian) Sea was called the Gürgen Sea by the Oguz of the Gorkut Ata era. The name of the city of Gürgen in Iran, and the name of Gürgen, which we find frequently in the poems of Magtymguly, is the name of our old totem, the Wolf. The Oguz considered themselves wolf-blooded. A wolf was always in front of our father Oguz Han during military campaigns.

The Türkmen goes out to nature, the mountains, the sea, the banks of rivers and the desert when he feels lonely, when he is perturbed and also when he is very happy. If you walk in the mountains and rivers and climb high hills, your heart will began to fly like a kite; at that moment the human being forgets all the pains and sufferings of the world, and participates in the world of the spirits. If you go around the world, you may find mountains and forests that are a hundred times more beautiful than those of the Türkmens, like Paradise. However, those mountains cannot understand you and cannot share your sufferings. Outside this territory you cannot find deserts, seas and rains that can blow musical instruments and sing songs in Türkmen.

The things that unite us are not only our mother tongue, our state, our blood, our soul, our dress, our similar faces, and our traditions, but also our nature because Türkmen means integrity. Integrity is understood as the highest value in the Türkmen conception.