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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; A Selection of the Circassian Nart Corpus; 1. If Our Lives Be Short, Let Our Fame Be Great; 2. The Tale of How Warzameg and Yimis Came to Be; 3. How Warzameg, Son of Meghazash, Won the Damsel Psatina; 4. Setenaya and Argwana; 5. The Blossom of Lady Setenaya; 6. Why the Sun Pauses on the Horizon at Sunset; 7. Lady Setenaya and the Magic Apple; 8. Lady Setenaya and the Shepherd: The Birth of Sawseruquo; 9. How Setenaya Was Led Astray; 10. The Childhood of Shebatinuquo |
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11. How Far-Seeing Setenaya Rescued Warzameg12. The Ballad of Warzamegyuquo Shebatinuquo; 13. Setenaya and the Great Nart Warzameg; 14. Nart Wazarmeg and His Friends Decide What to Do about a Black Fox; 15. The Old Age of the Great Nart; 16. How They Made Tlepsh Fashion the First Sickle ; 17. Tlepsh and Lady Tree; 18. The One Who Committed One Hundred Sins; 19. The Lament for Nagura Tlepshuquo; 20. How Nart Tlepsh Killed Bearded Yamina with the Avenging Sword; 21. Tlepsh's Gold Cellar; 22. The Story of Nart Totaresh and the Chinta Leader; 23. Two Fragments of the Ballad of Sawseruquo |
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24. The Ballad of Sawseruquo25. How the Horse of Setenayuquo Sawseruquo Was Killed; 26. Lady Nart Sana; 27. Adif; 28. Wardana and Chwindizh Dwell in the White-Haired Forest; 29. Warzamegyuquo Yasheruquo's Search for Courage; 30. How the Nart Khimish Married and How He Was Killed; 31. The Ballad of Khimishuquo Pataraz; 32. How the Narts Sought to Reach the Sky; 33. How Khimishuquo Pataraz Won the Three Magical Whetstones; 34. How Pataraz Freed Bearded Nasran, Who Was Chained to the High Mountain; 35. Bound Nasran; 36. An Old Man Chained to Elbruz; 37. A Cyclops Bound atop Wash'hamakhwa |
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38. How Bearded Nasran Visited Ashamaz39. The Ballad of Ashamaz; 40. Lashyn's Satirical Couplets about the Nart Men; 41. Hymn to T'haghalej ; 42. The Shiblawuj, a Round Dance to the God of Lightning; The Abaza Nart Corpus; 43. The Time of the Narts; 44. The Burial Ground of the Narts; 45. The Golden Apple Tree of the Narts; 46. Satanaya; 47. How Sosruquo Was Born; 48. Satanaya and Bataraz; 49. Satanaya and Tlepshw; 50. Sosruquo's Sword; 51. How Sosruquo Attended the Council of the Narts; 52. How Sosruquo Brought Fire to His Troops; 53. How Sosruquo Brought Back the Seeds of the Millet |
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54. Shardan55. How Sosruquo Brought Sana to the Narts; 56. Sosruquo and the Blind Ayniwzh; 57. Sosruquo and the Inquisitive Ayniwzh; 58. Sosruquo and the Giant's Skull; 59. Sosruquo and Six Men; 60. Sosruquo and Sotrash; 61. Sosruquo and Sosranpa; 62. Qaydukh of the Narts; 63. Qaydukh Fortress; 64. The Doom of Sosruquo; 65. Sosran of the Narts; 66. The Nanny Goat of the Narts; 67. Badan and Badanoquo of the Narts; 68. Badanoquo of the Narts ; 69. How the Barrel of the Narts Was Set to Boiling; 70. The Dream of Ayniwzh, Nana's Son; 71. Tataruquo Shaway; 72. Chwadlazhwiya's Tale |
| Summary |
The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward tales populated by extraordinary characters and exploits, by giants who humble haughty Narts, by horses and sorceresses, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus brings these cultures to life in a powerful epos. In these colorful tales, women, not least the beautiful temptress Satanaya, the mother of all Narts, |
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Print version record |
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Tales -- Caucasus
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Mythology, Caucasian.
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Circassians -- Folklore
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Abkhazians -- Folklore
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Ubykhs -- Folklore
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Abkhazo-Adyghian languages.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Abkhazians
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Abkhazo-Adyghian languages
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Circassians
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Mythology, Caucasian
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Tales
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Ubykhs
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Caucasus
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1322063249 |
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9781322063249 |
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9781400865284 |
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140086528X |
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