Zayatulak and Hyuhylu ( ba, Заятүләк менән Һыуhылыу, tt-Cyrl, Заятүләк белән Сусылу, Түләк, Түләк китабы) is a part-prose, part-poetry
epic
Epic commonly refers to:
* Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
* Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements
Epic or EPIC may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and medi ...
of the
Tatar and
Bashkir people who live in
Russia
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. It is one of the first Bashkir and Tatar epics.
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Мухаметзянова Л.Х. Книжные дастаны поволжских татар: проблема «границы» жанровых названий в народном творчестве.
- "Кроме понятий «дастан», «кысса», «хикайат», у поволжских татар популярным было слово «китаб» (книга) как название произведений дастанного эпоса. Например, «Туляк китабы», «Юсуф китабы»или же «Китабы Юсуф», «Кисекбаш китабы» и пр.."
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''Ф. И. Урманчеев'' Татарско-башкирское сказание о Туляке.// ( ru , Советская тюркология , translit = Sovietskaya tyurkologia). 1979. No. 6. С. 14−22.]
The main characters are Zayatulak and Hyuhylu.
Summary
At the start of the epic, Zayatulak dives in a lake, where a mermaid named Hyuhylu lives there. The epic is completed with the death of Hyuhylu while she was waiting Zayatulak, while Zayatulak was riding a
tulpar
Tulpar / ; ba, Толпар, ; tt-Cyrl, Тулпар, ; ky, Тулпар; tr, Tulpar; uz, Tulpor / ; ug, تۇلپار is a winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology (for example, Kazakh and Tatar mythology), similar to Pegasus. Tulpar i ...
. He was needing one more day to reach Hyuhylu. Shortly after Zayatulak commits suicide in the tomb of Hyuhylu.
Geographical places named in the epic
The epic takes place in the following places in
Davlekanovsky district
Davlekanovsky District (russian: Давлека́новский райо́н; ba, Дәүләкән районы) is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Article 64 and municipalLaw #126-z district (raion), one of t ...
, Bashkortostan:
*Mount
Balkan-Tau (Zayatulaktau)
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Lake Kandrykul
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Lake Aslikul
See also
*
Ural-batyr
''Ural-batyr'' or ''Ural-batır'' ( ba, Урал батыр, pronounced , from Ural + Turkic ''batır'' 'hero, brave man') is the most famous ''kubair'' (epic poem) of the Bashkirs. It is a telling of heroic deeds and legendary creatures, the f ...
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Akbuzat
''Akbuzat'' ( ba, Аҡбуҙат, from ''аҡбуҙ'' "blue-grey" and ''ат'' "horse") is the most famous ''kubair'' (epic poem) of the Bashkirs. It shows similarity to other epics (notably the story of Pegasus
Pegasus ( grc-gre, Πήγ ...
References
Further reading
* {{cite journal , last=CSIKAI , first=VALÉRIA , title=EINE UNVERÖFFENTLICHTE BASCHKIRISCHE VOLKSMÄRCHEN-VARIANTE , journal=Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , volume=28 , issue=1 , date=1974 , pages=37–61 , jstor=23657256 Accessed 4 Jan. 2023.
Bashkir mythology
Tatar culture