Ghmerti the Creator

Kartvelian supreme creator-god (Morige Ghmerti, the Director-God) of the highland religion, named across the Amirani entries as both the hero godfather and the god who binds him. Classed deity. The kinship-adjacent godfather bond is captured here together with the binding (relation kind enemy, since the symmetric kinds list has no godparent term); see notes.

Domains

• creation and supreme sovereignty

Powers

• bind the defiant Amirani to a Caucasian peak

Epithets

• მორიგე ღმერთი

Relations

• enemy: Amirani

Sources

• Svan, Pshav, Khevsur oral traditions of the Amirani epic; Charachidze, La Religion des Georgiens de la Montagne (1968)
• Amirani, Georgian National Encyclopedia (georgianencyclopedia.ge); Amirani, en.wikipedia, accessed June 2026