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	John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
		The Narts are a legendary race of heroes, whose deeds form the basis for the culture of the Caucasus.
		When the greatest Nart, Sosruquo, stole millet seeds from an ayniwzh, the ayniwzh left his field and "unharnessed his horse, came back home, had a rest, had dinner, then saddled his horse and began chasing him [Sosruquo]." (207) This directness of language and the blunt, plain dialogue provide a light-hearted tone to the sagas.
		Nart Sagas from the Caucasus sheds light on the traditions of a region that is otherwise primarily known for the ongoing war in Chechnya.
	greenmanreview.com /book/book_colarusso_nartsagas.html (691 words)

	epowiki: Narts
		The Nart Sagas are arguably the most essential ingredient of Circassian Culture, to which they are what Greek mythology is to Western Civilization.
		The Nart Epos is potentially the rallying cry for Circassian cultural renaissance.
		The legends of the Narts have been recently collected and published by Circassian scholars who are cognizant of the role that these might play in effecting the desired revival.
	www.possibility.com /epowiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Narts (163 words)

	John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
		The Narts are a legendary race of heroes, whose deeds form the basis for the culture of the Caucasus.
		When the greatest Nart, Sosruquo, stole millet seeds from an ayniwzh, the ayniwzh left his field and "unharnessed his horse, came back home, had a rest, had dinner, then saddled his horse and began chasing him [Sosruquo]." (207) This directness of language and the blunt, plain dialogue provide a light-hearted tone to the sagas.
		Nart Sagas from the Caucasus sheds light on the traditions of a region that is otherwise primarily known for the ongoing war in Chechnya.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_colarusso_nartsagas.html (691 words)

	CircassianLand This site is created by Makhmoud KARATABAN 2000 Maikop
		It was a code of honor for the tribes from which the peoples were formed, a receptacle of knowledge and a guide to action, all of which were of great educational importance.
		NARTS are not afraid of difficulties, will overcome any hardship and undergo terrible ordeals to defend the people's honor, freedom and happiness.
		Nart epic literature is an inexhaustible source of the development of nationa
	circassian.narod.ru /circass/liter/narts.htm (316 words)

	Nart saga at AllExperts
		The Nart sagas are a series of tales originating from the Caucasus Mountains.
		The story of Prometheus chained to Mount Kazbek in particular is similar to an element in the Nart sagas.
		These shared motifs are seen by some as indicative of an earlier proximity of the Caucasian peoples to the ancient Greeks, also shown in the myth of the Golden Fleece, in which Colchis is generally accepted to have been part of modern-day Georgia or Abkhazia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/n/na/nart_saga.htm (421 words)

	Ancient Wisdom New Millenium
		The Nart sagas constitute the best repository of the ancient western Scythian narratives that were transported to Britain and Gaul from the Pontic-Uralian steppes by peoples such as the Sarmatians and the Alans during the declining days of the Roman Empire.
		As she sat on her haunches doing the laundry by the river, the cow-herd, Zhemix'we, who was tending his bevy on the other side of the river, seeing her uncovered curvaceous limbs, was unable to hold back his semen (nafsi) as it was ejected across the river on the stone beside her.
		The Narts turned to her for council and advice in times of national calamities, and she was able to avert many disasters that could have annihilated the Nart nation.
	groups.msn.com /AncientWisdomNewMillenium/thenartsagas.msnw (777 words)

	Batraz at AllExperts
		The Narts were the central figures of Sarmatian folklore.
		The mother of the Narts was Satana who was renowned for her wisdom.
		The principal enemies of the Narts were the Terks or Turks but they also fought the vaigs, man eating ogres, and would ultimatley do battle with heaven itself.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/batraz.htm (389 words)

	Chechen tales
		The hunter took to his heels and on the way he came across Nart Gonchu who was ploughing the earth with eight wild boars.
		Narts were hardworking virtuous giants who helped people and they appear in many Chechen legends, myths and fairy tales.
		The Nart epics date back to the second century BC and belong to the folklore of many northern Caucasian nations.
	www.geocities.com /troys_tales/chechen (1788 words)

	Ancient Wisdom New Millenium
		So were the Narts established on earth with fire in their eyes, with glory on their foreheads.
		Then the angry and powerful Master said to the fair sparrow with excitement: "Fly to the Nart village and tell their wicked population that Master is preparing punishment to Narts.
		The Narts said to sparrow, with laughter: "Fly to the one who sent you and tell him our answer - It is better to die together, than to live in bondage and carry on with miserable lives.
	groups.msn.com /AncientWisdomNewMillenium/thenartsagas1.msnw (1913 words)

	Posts tagged with narts \| MetaFilter
		The Nart Sagas are arguably the most essential ingredient of Circassian Culture, to which they are what Greek mythology is to Western Civilization.
		The heroism, sagacity, guile and ferocity of the Nart demi-gods are more than matches to those of the Greek Pantheon.
		Although they seem to have been brought by the Ossetes (and J. Cassian is posting an Ossetian tale, The Death of Soslan, on his blog), they're everywhere in the Northern Caucasus.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/narts (164 words)

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