Anatolian songs and poetry
Welcome to Heydjan
A call to one listener at a time: bring your question, read the sources together.
Browse and search Anatolian songs and poetry with sources you can check, and help the corpus grow. Asik Z lives here too: a catalog-backed virtual ashik guide, not a prophet or single authority.
Hey, traveler: bring your question. We will answer with verses you can verify.
What kind of guide is this?
In the aşık tradition, the poet carries memory, doubt and song across generations. Asik Z is that role in software form: it searches, cites and explains within limits. It does not replace elders, teachers or living artists. It helps you find words, context and sources when you need them.
Four paths in Heydjan
Start with Asik Z on this site, or ask in your own AI (Perplexity, Cursor, and others) via the MCP connector. Every answer should point back to version IDs, sources and rights notes.
Talk with Asik Z
Open the site-wide chat about songs, tradition, or a catalog text.
Browse and search
Read the pilot list, open a text with its sources, or search by title and remembered words.
Open the song listUse in your AI
Connect a compatible AI app (for example Perplexity or Cursor) to the Asik Z MCP endpoint with your API key.
How to connectGrow the database
Share a song, correction or source. Submissions are reviewed; nothing is published automatically.
Send a contribution