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

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