Thus, the old Caucasian epics conceal a profound truth: that mankind stands not at the bottom of the hierarchy but at its fulcrum. In myth, we are the link between matter and spirit, the beneficiaries of a covenant older than history. Our legends remind us that the act of creation was never meant to be monopolized by an elite few, but to be tended,... See more

Indeed, in popular Nart cycles such as The First Sickle , The Golden Apple Tree of the Narts , and How Sosruquo Brought Back the Seeds of the Millet , the attentive reader will discern striking parallels to mythic episodes across the Indo-Eurasian continuum: the Indo-Aryan Tvaṣṭṛ and his forging of the thunderbolt; the Greek Garden of the... See more