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Mythology

The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

 of the country of Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

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Georgian myths and legends are preserved mainly as popular tales. Many of them have eventually fused with Christian

Christian

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 legends after Christianization of Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 more than fifteen centuries ago.

The most known Georgian mythic characters include:

• Adgilis deda
  Adgilis deda
  Adgilis Deda — literally, the "mother of locality" or "place-mother" — is a deity in the pre-Christian Georgian pantheon, especially revered by the mountaineers of northeast Georgia, such as the Khevsurs, as a protective spirit of a place and also as a deity of fertility of humans and livestock...
  
  

• Ali was a beautiful and temptress goddess of rivers and woods.

• Amirani
  Amirani
  Amirani 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,...
  
  , was a mythic hero, son of Dali and the hunter Darjelani. Prototype of Greek Prometheus.

• Armazi, god of gods..., the great gods, conquerors of the world, lighters of the sun, givers of rain, who cause the fruits of the earth to grow, was the main god in Kartli’s (Iberia) official religion established by King Parnavaz of Iberia (4th century, BC). According to the legend, an immense statue of Armazi was crushed by the lighting after St Nino’s pray. Armazi is also the name of an ancient fortress near Mtskheta
  Mtskheta
  Mtskheta , one of the oldest cities of the country of Georgia , is located approximately 20 kilometers north of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Aragvi and Kura rivers. The city is now the administrative centre of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region...
  
   that dates from the same period.

• Baaduri, was a warrior, son of the Gods, enemy of all evil.

• Dali, Deyla or Dalila, was the hunt goddess and 'lady of stones and animals'. She was believed to be a temptress and to have many love affairs with hunters brutally killing the traitors.

• Devi, giants, usually believed to be evil beings.

• Dilis Varskvlavi (the Morning Star), the winter god, was a servant of Tamar(i).

• Gatsi and Gaim
  Gatsi and Gaim
  Gatsi and Gaim were, according to the medieval Georgian chronicles, the deities in a pre-Christian pantheon of ancient Georgians of Kartli . The Georgian hagiographic work "The Life of St. Nino" reports that when St...
  
  , were gods in official Iberian pantheon according to the medieval annals.

• Iakhsari, mythic hero, was a son of Morige and a close friend of Baaduri.

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

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

• Leucothenia (the White Goddess), was a Greek name for Georgian (Kolkheti) goddess of sea.

• Memuka, was brother of Baaduri.It is believed that he studied witchcraft and wanted to remain immortal.

• Morige, was creator, the Lord of the Sky sitting on a golden throne.

• Mzeqala (Sun-woman) was the Sun goddess, patroness of grape growing. Later identified with St Barbara (Barbare, Barbale in Georgian).

• Pirkhusha, was a smith, making Kopala’s arrows.

• Tamar, goddess of sky, riding on a snake, is identified with Lamara.

• Tetri Giorgi
  Tetri Giorgi
  Tetri Giorgi is one of the local names of Christian Saint George in Georgia, specifically in the country’s northeastern highland districts. The popularity of the cult led to establishment of Tetri Giorgi as a national symbol, part of Georgia's coat of arms in the years 1918-1921 and 1991-2004...
  
   (White George), popular character in Georgian mythology, was a warrior and a moon god. Later Tetri Giorgi became one of the names of St George in the mountainous eastern Georgia.

• Zadeni, was the god of fertility in Iberian official pantheon established by Parnavaz I.

See also

• Castro culture
  Castro culture
  Castro culture is the archaeological term for naming the Celtic archaeological culture of the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula from the end of the Bronze Age until it was subsumed in local Roman culture...
  
  
• Ossetian mythology
  Ossetian mythology
  The mythology of the Ossetian people of the Caucasus region contains several gods and supernatural beings. The religion itself is believed to be of Sarmatian origin, but contains many later elements from Christianity, and the Ossetian gods are often identified with Christian saints. The gods play a...