Pantheons

Georgian

Pantheons

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Divinity Atlas. "Georgian." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/pantheons/georgian-pantheon-anchor.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Georgian. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/pantheons/georgian-pantheon-anchor

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@misc{divinityatlas-georgian,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Georgian},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/pantheons/georgian-pantheon-anchor},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The court pantheon of pre-Christian Kartli (Iberia), headed by the sky and war god Armazi and including Ghmerti, the older word for the divine that survived Christianization to become the modern Georgian word for God.

Facts

Attestation

Era of Attestation

Attested from Georgian religion before the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in the fourth century CE, documented chiefly through later Georgian chronicle accounts of the pre-Christian pantheon. 1

Correspondences & Relations

Pantheon Members

ArmaziGhmerti

Pantheon Of

Pre-Christian Georgian Religion

Sources

1. Encyclopedia of Religion

Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source

The Georgians (Lang)

David Marshall Lang, Thames and Hudson, Ancient Peoples and Places vol. 51, 1966Lang's survey of the Georgian pantheon headed by Armazi

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