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Zana (Abkhaz: Зана, romanized: Zana) was a woman who lived in the second half of the 19th century in Abkhazia, South Caucasus.According to legend, she was an Almas ("forest woman") of great proportions entirely covered in hair, captured by hunters in the forests of Abkhazia in the mid-19th century.
The zana is believed to have the power to petrify humans with a glance; [20] shetuar or shituar is used in the Gheg Albanian dialect for a person that has been paralyzed by a zana. [23] [24] The zana symbolize the vital energy of human beings. They idealize feminine energy, wild beauty, eternal youth and the joy of nature.
Zana Muhsen (born 1965), English author; Zana Nimani (born 1961), Yugoslav singer with the band Zana; Zana Ramadani (born 1984), German politician and feminist activist; Žana Novaković (born 1985), alpine skier for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zana of Tkhina, an Abkhazian "wild-woman" believed by some people to have been a relict hominid
Nikolay Przhevalsky describes the almas, as related to him under the name kung-guressu ("man-beast"), as follows: "We were told that it had a flat face like that of a human being, and that it often walked on two legs, that its body was covered with a thick black fur, and its feet armed with enormous claws; that its strength was terrible, and that not only were hunters afraid of attacking it ...
The zana idealizes feminine energy, wild beauty, eternal youth and the joy of nature. They appear as warlike nymphs capable of offering simple mortals a part of their own psychophysical and divine power, giving humans strength comparable to that of the drangue .
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The zana and ora symbolize the vital energy and existential time of human beings respectively. The zana idealize feminine energy, wild beauty, eternal youth and the joy of nature. They appear as warlike nymphs capable of offering simple mortals a part of their own psychophysical and divine power, giving humans strength comparable to that of the ...
By the 1970s, after she started to transition and began identifying as her true self, Carmichael became fascinated with a three-wheeled vehicle dubbed the Dale and sought out to revolutionize the ...