The name originates from a legend about the mountains which tells of a common villager who fell in love with the local queen and asked for her hand in marriage.
The queen wasn't too keen on this, so asked him to bring her some water from the spring of Apostolos Andreas Monastery, situated high in the mountains,
a dangerous journey in those days. The man set off and returned several weeks later with a skin full of that precious water. The queen still refused to marry him,
and in a fit of rage he poured the water onto the ground, seized a handful of the resulting mud and threw it at the queen's head. She ducked, and the lump of mud
sailed on, far across the plain, to land on top of the Kyrenia mountain range, still showing the impression of the spurned villager's five fingers.