Zayatulak and Hyuhylu
# Zayatulak and Hyuhylu

Zayatulak and Hyuhylu (Bashkir: Заятүләк менән Һыуhылыу, Tatar: Заятүләк белән Сусылу, Түләк, Түләк китабы) is a part-prose, part-poetry epic of the Tatar and Bashkir people who live in Russia. It is one of the first Bashkir and Tatar epics.

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. 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, Bashkortostan:

* Mount Balkan-Tau (Zayatulaktau)
* Lake Kandrykul
* Lake Aslikul
