Thematic Readings On Circassian And Greek Mythologies

Download or read book Thematic Readings on Circassian and Greek Mythologies written by Nilgün Elam and published by SELÇUK BAĞLAR. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fact, Hades was the homeland of the ancient Greeks. For this reason, they believed that the soul of every Greek who died went to their ancestral homeland. The Greeks people are originated from the middle Caucasus, and Greek mythology belongs to the eastern Caucasus, because Caron, the boatman, who transferred the souls of the dead to Hades, crossing the Terek river, which emptied into the Caspian Sea, and took the souls to their homeland, the central Caucasus. The Greeks, who worshipped Zeus, lost the wars they fought against the neighbouring tribes that worshipped the Titans and they were exiled from the Caucasus. The ancient Greeks, who settled in Crete and Hellas, maintained the cult of Zeus until today. The Circassians, the autochthonous people of the Caucasus, jealously preserved the myths of the Titans in their mythology. This book compares the narratives of the gods of Mount Olympus with the gods of Mount Harama Ouasha, the home of the Titans, as called by the Circassian people. In this book, in which Circassian Mythology of Narts is compared with Greek Mythology, you will witness the parallelization between the Mediterranean Greek with the Caucasian Circassian civilizations and the mythical origins of these two worlds. This book will make you revisit many of the stories you thought you knew about Greek mythology. This book is the first (leg) of the book series of the author written on Circassian Nart Mythology.