Georgian mythology

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History of Georgia

Georgian mythology refers to the mythology of pre-Christian Georgians.

Georgian myths and legends are preserved mainly as popular tales. Many of them have eventually fused with Christian legends after the Christianization of Georgia seventeen centuries ago.

List of mythic characters

A non-exhaustive list of Georgian mythical characters includes:

Adgilis Deda

Amirani - mythic hero, son of Dali. Equivalent of the Greek Prometheus.

Armazi - Chief of the gods; central figure in Kartli’s (Iberia) official religion established by King Pharnavaz of Iberia (4th century, BC). According to the legend, an immense statue of Armazi was destroyed by lightning after St. Nino’s prayer. Armazi is also the name of an ancient fortress near Mtskheta that dates from the same period.

Gatsi and Gaimi - gods in the official Iberian pantheon according to the medieval annals.

Kopala - mythic hero, mighty warrior (archer) and a demon killer.

Lamara - goddess, was called ‘eye of the earth’.

Ochopintre - spirit of the forest and protector of wild animals.

Tamar - goddess of the sky, riding on a snake; is identified with Lamara.

Tetri Giorgi (White George) - popular character in Georgian mythology; a warrior and a moon god. Later Tetri Giorgi became one of the names of St. George in eastern Georgia.

Zadeni - god of fertility in the official pantheon established by Pharnavaz I.

Mythology of Europe

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Paganism (Historical and Modern)

Animism Pantheism Polytheism

Historical polytheism	Altaic Tungusic Turkic-Mongolic Ancient Near Eastern: Assyro-Babylonian Canaanite Egyptian Semitic Finno-Ugric (Uralic): Finnish-Estonian Caucasian: Georgian Vainakh Indo-European: Armenian Celtic Germanic Anglo-Saxon Continental Germanic Norse Greek Eleusinian Mysteries Hero cult Persian Roman Scythian Slavic Vedic Mesoamerican: Aztec Maya Olmec

Myth and ritual	Animal worship Ethos Folklore Magic and religion Myth and ritual Mythology Orthopraxy Religion and mythology Ritual Sacrifice animal human Sorcery Veneration of the dead Virtue Witchcraft

Christianization	Christianisation of saints and feasts Christianity and Paganism Constantinian shift Hellenistic religion Iconoclasm Neoplatonism Religio licita Roman imperial cult Virtuous pagan

Modern pagan movements	Contemporary Witchcraft: Cochranianism Feri Stregheria Wicca Ethnic / Reconstructionist: Armenian Baltic Dievturība Druwi Romuva Canarian Caucasian Abkhaz Circassian Celtic Turkic Chuvash Altai Germanic Hellenic Hungarian Italo-Roman Kemetic Ossetian Romanian Semitic Slavic Uralic Estonian Finnish Mari Mordvin Udmurt European Congress of Ethnic Religions Goddess movement Neo-Druidism

Georgian mythology

List of mythic characters

See also