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Jeti ata (kaz. Zheti ata, “Seven grandfathers”; Kirg. Jeti ata, “Seven fathers”; another meaning is “Seven ancestors”; also the spelling variant “Zheta ata” is found) is the pedigree compilation system (shezhire) of the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, also among the Bashkirs (you are byuyn). The principle of “Jeti Ata” implied the obligatory knowledge of the names of their ancestors through the male line to the seventh generation. Relatives up to the seventh generation were considered close and were collectively responsible for each other; marriages between them were forbidden in order to avoid incest.

Terms
Associated terminology with this system is up to the seventh knee.

The ban on closely related marriages
Relatives to the seventh generation were considered close from ancient times, but marriages between them were not initially prohibited. A direct ban on closely related marriages was introduced by Yessim Khan at the turn of the XVI and XVII centuries. His decree read: "If the Kazakhs, being relatives of each other, will marry, they are sentenced to death." This norm, prohibiting marriages up to the seventh knee along the male line, was enshrined in the Esim’s Primordial Way and Jety арargy Codes. Only in exceptional cases were marriages allowed in the sixth generation. However, this prohibition was ignored by the Kazakh Chingizids - the tore.

Since the ban on closely related marriages was the norm of customary rather than Muslim law, after the accession of Kazakhstan to the Russian Empire, the ban gradually lost its severity. The law of modern Kazakhstan also does not prohibit marriage to the seventh generation, but there is a prohibition between siblings.

Education of a new kind
After the appearance of the eighth generation in the clan, the aksakals of this clan declared to other surrounding clans that one more clan of Kazakhs had been added, to whose girls it is possible to mate. Then he was given permission to marry one young man and one girl who had reached the age of majority. At the wedding, a white mare was slaughtered, the newlyweds washed their milk and gave the name of the clan, and the heads of other clans proclaimed the baht (blessing)

Modernity
Nowadays, oralmans and Kazakhs living outside of Kazakhstan are paying much attention to the Jeti Ata traditions. Thus, more than 70% of Kazakhs in China know all seven of their generations.

Proverbs
Kazakhs have proverbs related to the Jeti Ata:


 * those who do not know their ancestors are ignorant);
 * “Who knows the names of his ancestors, he respects his people);
 * “Ignorance of seven ancestors is a sign of orphanhood). "Know the seven ancestors, and the language of seventy countries

Kyrgyz preverbs

"Who does not know his seven ancestors is a slave"



Mats

 * «I ad your 77 ancestors 77 of your ancestors).
 * “I had Seven Your Grandfathers”,
 * “I had Seven Generations Of Your Ancestors”).

In the literature
In the poem "Kalkaman-Mamyr" by Shakarim Kudaiberdiyev it is told about a couple in love who violated the prohibition of incest to the seventh generation.

In 2017, the book "Seven generations of the ascending genealogy of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin" was published