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The shared pantheon of deities and semi-divine culture heroes recorded across the Circassian, Ossetian, Abkhaz and Georgian highland branches of Caucasian native religion, most fully preserved in the Nart sagas.

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Era of Attestation
Attested from the oral tradition of the indigenous peoples of the Caucasus mountains, documented in the outside record chiefly by Russian and European ethnographers from the nineteenth century CE onward. 1
Correspondences & Relations

Pantheon Members

Batraz, DeitiesSatanaya, DeitiesSosruko, DeitiesWastyrdzhi, Deities

Pantheon Of

Caucasian Native Religion, Religions
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (Colarusso)
John Colarusso, Princeton University Press, 2002Colarusso's introduction, on the shared pantheon across the Caucasus peoples
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