Qutlı-Qıya

Qutlı-Qıya (Kutlukaya) is the noble father of Edige in the Nogai and wider Kipchak epic. A trusted bey at the court of Toqtamish, he is falsely suspected, or refuses to surrender the peri-woman coveted by the khan, and is put to death. His unjust killing is the founding wrong of the Edige cycle, transforming his orphaned son into the sovereign's lifelong enemy and avenger.

Children

• Edige

Domains

• nobility

Powers

• serves as loyal bey and counsellor

Relations

• child: Edige
• enemy: Toqtamish

Sources

• V. M. Zhirmunsky, Tyurkskiy geroicheskiy epos (Leningrad: Nauka, 1974), 'Skazanie ob Idige'
• A. I.-M. Sikaliev, Nogayskiy geroicheskiy epos (Cherkessk: KChIGI, 1994)