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Batraz
Caucasian Deities
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The fiercest of the Ossetian Narts, a warrior of steel born to Satana and tempered in the sea, invulnerable except where the tongs held him during his own quenching. His pride and violence eventually provoke the sky and its powers, and in the cycle's darkest turn he dies fighting against them, a divine punishment the Ossetian tradition reads as the cost of the Narts' own arrogance.
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TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 A warrior of the Ossetian Nart cycle whose death at the hands of the sky and its powers presumes a described pantheon of divine powers, the same pre-Christian Caucasus religious system in which Wastyrdzhi is an actively worshipped holy being. Attributions
Mythic AssociationBatraz's pride and violence eventually provoke the sky and its powers, and in the cycle's darkest turn he dies fighting against them, a fate the Ossetian tradition reads as the cost of the Narts' own arrogance. 1 Function
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Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 1 HistoricityLegendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record 1 Correspondences & Relations
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