Atsamaz

THE ONE NART WHOSE STORY IS A LOVE-QUARREL. He is typed mortal because nothing divine is recorded of his parentage in the sources consulted, and no parentage is asserted here.

Domains

• pipe playing
• shepherding
• courtship by music

Relations

• wooer of: AgundaWritten within this batch, and deliberately NOT authored as the symmetric 'lover': the episode the sources give ends in a quarrel and a broken pipe, not a marriage.Reference treatment of Atsamaz and Agunda: the ancient Nart Saynag-Aldar lives in a castle on a hill and decides to find a husband for his daughter Agunda; Atsamaz is a shepherd who is a travelling companion of the famous bogatyr Soslan, and he secretly loves Agunda; in the Nartiada Atsamaz plays a pipe in order to win the heart of the unapproachable Agunda; before Soslan and Atsamaz leave on their journey Agunda hears the music of Atsamaz's pipe and follows its sound, and when they meet he tells her the music is for her, but when she asks him to give her the pipe as a symbol of his love he refuses, explaining that it is a present from the gods, and when she tells him this means he does not love her, Atsamaz breaks the pipe in anger and storms away. (secondary)
• companion of the road of: SoslanWritten within this batch. Non-symmetric by choice, because the sources describe him as Soslan's travelling companion without describing the reverse.Reference treatment of Atsamaz and Agunda: the ancient Nart Saynag-Aldar lives in a castle on a hill and decides to find a husband for his daughter Agunda; Atsamaz is a shepherd who is a travelling companion of the famous bogatyr Soslan, and he secretly loves Agunda; in the Nartiada Atsamaz plays a pipe in order to win the heart of the unapproachable Agunda; before Soslan and Atsamaz leave on their journey Agunda hears the music of Atsamaz's pipe and follows its sound, and when they meet he tells her the music is for her, but when she asks him to give her the pipe as a symbol of his love he refuses, explaining that it is a present from the gods, and when she tells him this means he does not love her, Atsamaz breaks the pipe in anger and storms away. (secondary)

Sources

• A Nart shepherd and travelling companion of Soslan, who plays a pipe given him by the gods to win the heart of the unapproachable Agunda — and breaks it in anger when she takes his refusal to give it away as proof that he does not love her.: Reference treatment of Atsamaz and Agunda: the ancient Nart Saynag-Aldar lives in a castle on a hill and decides to find a husband for his daughter Agunda; Atsamaz is a shepherd who is a travelling companion of the famous bogatyr Soslan, and he secretly loves Agunda; in the Nartiada Atsamaz plays a pipe in order to win the heart of the unapproachable Agunda; before Soslan and Atsamaz leave on their journey Agunda hears the music of Atsamaz's pipe and follows its sound, and when they meet he tells her the music is for her, but when she asks him to give her the pipe as a symbol of his love he refuses, explaining that it is a present from the gods, and when she tells him this means he does not love her, Atsamaz breaks the pipe in anger and storms away. (secondary)