Kartvelian goddess of the hunt and protectress of wild herds; Kartvelian polytheistic deity preserved in Svan, Pshav, and Khevsur oral traditions. Long-golden-haired and radiant; dwelling on inaccessible cliffs. Took mortal hunter-lovers; mother of the culture-hero Amirani. Killed by Sulkalmakhi's jealous wife Darejan, who cut her hair while she slept; her death-request to Sulkalmakhi to cut open her womb produced the prematurely-born Amirani. After the rise of Christianity in Georgia, her importance waned — Saint George was syncretically promoted as having power to overrule her, and she was sometimes conflated with the malicious nature-spirit ali. Tuite 1998 has compared her to Artemis as a "patron of the hunt associated with hoofed beasts."