Thursday, January 17, 2008

SCIENCE: "malar-erda" – the god of intoxicating drinks (i.e. the god of alcohol)

Alexander Bainbridge posted a new list of gods from the caucasian mountains. The Gods of the Vainakh is a list was copied from Mariel Tsaroieva's amazing Anciennes Croyances des Ingouches et des Tchétchènes ("Ancient Beliefs of the Ingush and the Chechens", published in 2005).
Ms Tsaroieva is of Ingush origin, and holds a PhD in History of Religion from the prestigious Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales in Paris. A former teacher of romance linguistics at the state universities of Chechnya-Ingushetia and Kyrgyzstan, she has published many articles and books on folklore and "geolinguistics", both in Russian and in French.

Here is the list >>>



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