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Caucasus
Plural Caucasus myth, epic, folklore, and sacred storytelling, now entered through distinct Ossetian and Kartvelian source rooms without collapsing their languages or peoples.
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Texts
GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Caucasus shelf.Introduction to Caucasus TraditionsA source-critical introduction to the Caucasus shelf as a plural mountain archive currently entered through Ossetian Nart and folk tales, with attention to oral tradition, shrine religion, Christianity, Islam, source transmission, and the limits of the present holdings.Reader's Guide to CaucasusA deliberately incomplete map of the Caucasus shelf through Ossetian Nart and folk narrative, a three-part Kartvelian anthology, one Armenian collection, and the imperial routes that carried them into English.