He is then told that God was going to give him a long life. In his effort to kill Goggle-eye, the ogre, Basat invokes the name of Muhammad before driving a pointed rod into his eye and renders him blind. ... When Google-eye asks him how he had managed to escape from being killed, he clarifies that God had saved him.

Is Dede Korkut real?

1318) says that Dede Korkut was a real person and lived for 295 years; that he appeared in the time of the Oghuz ruler Inal Syr Yavkuy Khan, by whom he was sent as ambassador to the Prophet; that he became Muslim; that he gave advice to the Great Khan of the Oghuz, attended the election of the Great Khan, and gave ...

Who is Basat in the Book of Dede Korkut?

He is half man and half lion. One day hunters catch him and give him to Aruz (the father) in order to let him raise his son. After some time, his son comes to understand that he is human. Dede Korkut gives him an honourable name – Basat (Bas means to devour, to crush.