The Avenger Nart
Circassian · demigod · mythic / Nart age · Recorded classification
Adyghe Nart; counterpart of Ossetian Batraz but a distinct Circassian figure. His parents — the Nart Khimish and the water-sprite Lady Isp — are not in the corpus, so parentIds []; genealogy recorded here. Classed demigod (Nart culture-hero).
Parentage
- parent: The Frog-Like Water-Sprite
Domains
- vengeance and justice
- heroic warfare
- liberation of the bound
Powers
- exacts blood-vengeance/wergeld for his murdered father
- frees Bearded Nasran chained to the high mountain
- wins the three magical whetstones
Relations
- companion: The Great NartFellow great Narts. Reciprocated within this batch on circassian_warzameg.John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (2002) (Pataraz and Warzameg among the four great Narts of the host). (secondary)
- companion: Fire-Bringer Born of StoneComrades in the Nart host.John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (2002) (Sosruquo and Pataraz among the four great Narts). (secondary)
Sources
- Pataraz (Bataraz / Khimishuquo Pataraz) is a central Circassian Nart hero — the avenger who, conceived by Khimish and the water-sprite Lady Isp, swears vengeance in the womb for his treacherously slain father, frees Bearded Nasran from the mountain, and wins the three magical whetstones; the counterpart of Ossetian Batraz.: John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (Princeton UP, 2002), Pataraz cycle (tales 'How Pataraz Freed Bearded Nasran...' and 'How Khimishuquo Pataraz Won the Three Magical Whetstones'). (secondary); John Colarusso, 'Prometheus among the Circassians'; Georges Dumézil, Légendes sur les Nartes (1930) (Batraz, the storm/steel avenger-hero, son of Xæmyc/Khimish). (secondary)