Tepegöz
Also known as: Tepe Göz
Basic account
A one-eyed man-eater, blinded in his cave by a young man who tricked him. When a German scholar read the manuscript in 1815, he concluded that Homer had got the story from the East.
Account
Tepegöz appears in the eighth of the twelve tales of the Book of Dede Korkut, the great epic cycle of the Oghuz Turks. The tale is named for his killer: the story of Basat, who killed Tepegöz.
Motifs
- The single eye
- Defeated by cunning
- Eater of people
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What is disputed
Whether this story or Homer's came first, and whether either borrowed from the other.
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Sources
- Book of Dede Korkut, Dresden manuscript
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