The mythology Ossetia, the current people of the Caucasus, includes a number of deities and beings with supernatural powers, all tinged with Christian and Muslim influences, so the names of gods often correspond to the names of saints.
These divinities play a more or less important role in the epic of the semi-divine race of the Nartes. This mythology influenced or was influenced to different degrees by the legends of neighboring peoples, especially the Tatars, Circassians, Chechens and Ingush. Pagan myths and cults have survived through worship and oral traditions despite the influence of monotheisms in the region.
These stories were then transcribed in writing since the second half of the 19th century.e century and possible comparisons with other mythologies Indo-Europeans have since been reported. The vast majority of French-speaking literature on Ossetian mythology was brought to us by the French philologist and comparatist Georges Dumézil, who recognized in this mythology a heritage of the religion of the scythians, of which the Ossetians would be the descendants.
Books on Persian-Caucasian mythology
Comics / Illustrated:
In French :
- The Gathas: The Sublime Book of Zarathustra
- One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 1
- One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 2
- One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 3
- Mani and the Manichaean tradition
- The Gardens of Light
- Iran, a 4000 year history
- The Book of Heroes
- The Book of Dede Korkut in the language of the Oghuz people
- 15 tales from Armenia
- Tales from Armenia: Epic, folk tales and legends
- The Armenian legend of David of Sassoun
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