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Georgian mythology (Georgian: ქართული მითოლოგია, romanized: kartuli mitologia) refers to the mythology of pre-Christian Georgians (/kʌrtˈvɛliənz/; Georgian: ქართველები, romanized: kartvelebi, pronounced [ˈkʰaɾtʰvelebi]), an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia and the South Caucasus.
The wolf as a mythological creature is greatly linked to Balkan and Serbian mythology and cults. [34] It has an important part in Serbian mythology. [35] In the Slavic, old Serbian religion and mythology, the wolf was used as a totem. [36] [full citation needed] In the Serbian epic poetry, the wolf is a symbol of fearlessness. [37]
In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events of Ragnarök, where he is foretold to assist in setting the world aflame, resulting in the collapse of humanity and society, and kill the god Odin. Fenrir, along with Hel and the World Serpent, is a child of Loki and female jötunn Angrboða.
Amirani or Amiran (Georgian: ამირანი) is the name of a culture hero of a Georgian epic who resembles the Classical Prometheus. Various versions of the myth reveal a process through which the myth was transformed over time, but the legend itself is traced between 3,000 and 2,000 years BC at the beginning of the first Iron Age, as ...
Georgia's medieval culture was greatly influenced by Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, which promoted and often sponsored the creation of many works of religious devotion. These included churches and monasteries, works of art such as icons, and hagiographies of Georgian saints.
Though written in Georgian at the height of the pan-Caucasian empire of the Georgian Bagratids, according to the modern historian Stephen H. Rapp, The Knight in the Panther's Skin "was an expression of the Iranian/Iranic epic and not some genre of Byzantine literature". [15] Rustaveli used a Persian model for writing The Knight in the Panther's ...
A daeva (Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 daēuua) is a Zoroastrian supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian canon, the daeva s are "gods that are (to be) rejected". This meaning is – subject to interpretation – perhaps also evident in the Old Persian " daiva inscription" of ...
The Golden Bird. " Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf " (Russian: Сказка об Иване-царевиче, жар-птице и о сером волке) is a Russian fairy tale [ 1 ] collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Russian Fairy Tales. [ 2 ] It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/ firebird.