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Nart Sagas from the Caucasus : Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs

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 tal...

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Autor principal: Colarusso, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
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588 |a Description based on print version record. 
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650 7 |a Abkhazo-Adyghian languages.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00794444 
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