Do you like legends ?

If you like, you will be upset, after hearing the legends that we will tell you.

The king of the Karya, Malletos, who is the son of Apollo had twices. The boy twice is given the name 'Kaunos', and the name of the girl baby is 'Byblis'.

The twice grew up together and they fell in love with eachother. Secret love reveal when they had a baby. The king was very raged and he expelled his son from the country.

After expulsion Kaunos founded a city near the boundary of Lidya. The new city is opposite the town which called 'Dalyan' today.

What did happened to Byblis? This is the sad part of legend. The King humiliated Byblis and she didn`t bear the pain of leaving from her lover. She cried cried, her tear rivers dried. Eventually, she threw herself from a hill and died. According to legend, Dalyan Canals that remind labirents was formed by the tears of Byblis.

The Roman historian and poet Ovidius told the story differently.

Accoding to Azra Erhat who tell the story to us from Ovidus, legend about the foundation of Kaunos is like this: Byblis fell in love with Kaunos. Byblis wrote a letter to Kaunos and told her feelings in her letter. Kaunos reaction was very dissappointing for her and he refused her with hate and anger. The Kaunos didn`t want to see Byblis again and left the country with his friends. He came to Kaunos and founded the city that called with his name.

As for Byblis, she wanted to die because of Kaunos`s disappointing reaction to her love. She threw herself from a high hill but water fairies (Nympies) rescued her and reverted her to a river. The tears of Byblis formed the river and still that day, tears of her is splashing...