Nart saga

The sledges are a legendary people of semi-divine heroes from the myths and epics of many peoples of the Northern Caucasus, especially of Circassians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Karachay, Balkar, the Ingush, Chechens and Abasinen.

The name probably derives from the Mongol word Narta ( sun).

The mother of all Narten is the seductive fashion Satanaya that has many similarities with the ancient Greek fertility goddess Demeter. The Narten Saying possess the balancing relationship between men and women, goddesses and heroines enjoy great respect in the stories.

After ossetischem faith Narten lived on the peaks of the Caucasus. You unbridled anger, great bravery, cunning, and contempt were awarded against anything soft. The horses of Narten should be galloping as Odin's steed through the air. The Ossetians are considered descendants of the Alans, an Indo-European people, and Reiter part of the Sarmatian tribe, which should in turn be developed according to Herodotus by a mixture of Scythians with the Amazons.

Nartische deities like the sky smith Kurdalagon, the god of thunder and Uazilla Sapha, the patron of the domestic hearth, have parallels to Norse sagas and myths. Even Greek mythology similar to Narten Saying many elements. The figure of Nazran eg similar to the fire -bringing Titan Prometheus, the god Zeus can just bind to a mountain in the Caucasus.

The French religious historian Georges Dumézil (1898-1986) came from a Scythian origin of Narten Saying and praised it as an important piece of Eurasian literature. The Narten play a role in his studies because their clan structure may reflect the functional tripartite division of society into priests, warriors and peasants, who is many ancient Indo-European traditions is based. In the diminutive Narten prorogue Syrdon Dumézil sees a precursor of the crafty Loki from Norse mythology. John Colarusso leads the Nart legends on Indo-European, Turkic and Mongolian traditions zurük.

The Russian Orthodox priest André Sikojev (father Ossetian, mother German ) for the first time, transfer the Nart Epic of a Russian version, there was beside a Ossetia since 1948 in German. According Sikojev the Narten Saying have been incurred in the settlement area of the Ossetians and once told and sung throughout the Northern Caucasus. The clashes of nartischen heroes with their God compares Sikojev with the struggles in the Serbian legend of the sun robbery and with the fight Thor against the Midgard serpent in the Norse sagas.

" Nart " is also part of the name of several sports clubs, including Nart Tscherkessk or Nart Sukhum.