Təpəgöz is the one-eyed ogre of the Oghuz epic Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud, the antagonist of the tale 'How Basat Killed Tepegoz'. Begotten when a shepherd forced himself on a peri (fairy) by a spring, he is born from a mass that swells out of the ground, his single eye set on the crown of his head; the peri mother sets a ring on his finger that renders his body proof against every weapon. Raised among the Oghuz but grown monstrous, he demands a daily tribute of young men and flocks to devour and lays the people waste, until the hero Basat, blinding him with a glowing spit thrust into the one eye and then beheading him, ends the terror. Scholars have long compared the episode with Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, debating whether it is inherited common myth or borrowing.