Editing Bashkirs (section)

===The Ural-Batyr and its impact===
The poem ''[[Ural-batyr|Ural Batyr]]'' is an epic which includes deities of the [[Tengrist]] pantheon. It takes basis on the pre-Islamic Bashkir conception of the world. In the ''Ural Batyr'' the world is three-tiered. It includes a heavenly, earthly and underworld (underwater) trinity: in the sky, the heavenly king Samrau resides, his wives are the Sun and the Moon, he has two daughters, Umay and Aikhylu, who are incarnated either in the form of birds or beautiful girls. In the ''Ural Batyr'', Umay is incarnated into a [[swan]] and later assumes the aspect of a beautiful girl as the story proceeds.

People live on the earth, the best of whom pledge honor and respect to the existence of nature. The third world is the underground world, where the ''Devas'' (also singular ''Deva'' or ''Div'') live, incarnated as a snake, the incarnation of the dark forces, who live underground. Through the actions and divisions of the world related in the Ural Batyr, the Bashkirs express a manichaean view of [[good and evil]]. The legendary hero Ural, possessing titanic power, overcoming incredible difficulties, destroys the ''deva'', and obtains "living water" (the idea of water in nature, in the pre-Islamic Bashkir pantheon of the [[Turkic mythology]], is considered a spirit of life).

Ural thus obtains the "living water" in order to defeat death in the name of the eternal existence of man and nature. Ural does not drink the "living water" to live eternally. Instead, he decides to sparkle it around himself, to die and donate eternity to the world, the withered earth turning green. Ural dies and from his body emerge the [[Ural Mountains]]; the name of the Ural mountain range comes from this poem.