Kurdalægon

THE CORPUS ALREADY NAMED HIM AND DID NOT HOLD HIM. ossetian_batraz carries the domain 'tempered in the (Kurdalægon) smithy' and ossetian_satana's cycle turns on the same forge — a smith cited inside another record's domain label while having no record of his own. That is this programme's recurring finding, arriving here for the twentieth time.

Domains

• smithcraft
• tempering of heroes
• shoeing the horse of the dead
• friendship with the narts

Relations

• temperer of: BatrazNon-symmetric, written from this end only; ossetian_batraz is a pre-existing record and this batch mutates none. The pre-existing record already carries the domain 'forge-tempered-warrior — tempered in the (Kurdalægon) smithy', so the corpus named the smith in a domain label for a smith it did not hold.Reference treatment of Kurdalægon: the heavenly deity of blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology and a close friend of the Narts, whose epithet is 'the heavenly one'; he shoes the dead man's horse and so helps him on his journey to the other side; he forged the body of the steel hero Batraz by quenching the white-hot infant in the sea after he was delivered from his father's back; he tempered Soslan's body in wolf's milk, which did not cover the knees; he is the Ossetian counterpart of the Circassian smith Tlepsh. (secondary)
• equated with: SafaReciprocated within this batch. The sources identify Safa with Kurdalægon; both are carried as records because each has a distinct cult and distinct sphere — the hearth chain and the forge — and folding either into the other would lose one of them.Reference treatment of Safa: the god of the hearth chain and the most important domestic deity of the Ossetians, the name deriving from Sabbas the Sanctified; Safa gave people the hearth chain (Ossetian рæхыс), which played a large part in social and family life — people pronouncing solemn oaths, and blood-enemies reconciling and forgiving each other, held on to this chain; a mother laying her child down for the night entrusted him to Safa's protection with one hand on the chain; at her farewell the bride went three times around the hearth chain and touched it in parting from her father's house, and did the same on first entering her husband's; Safa is identified with the smith-deity Kurdalægon, and in the Nart saga he is called 'heavenly', a friend of the Narts and the teacher of Uryzmæg's son Crym-Sultan. (secondary)
• cross tradition counterpart of: Divine Smith of the NartsNon-symmetric, written from this end only; circassian_tlepsh is a pre-existing record. The one-cult-two-keys pattern this registry holds on purpose.Reference treatment of Kurdalægon: the heavenly deity of blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology and a close friend of the Narts, whose epithet is 'the heavenly one'; he shoes the dead man's horse and so helps him on his journey to the other side; he forged the body of the steel hero Batraz by quenching the white-hot infant in the sea after he was delivered from his father's back; he tempered Soslan's body in wolf's milk, which did not cover the knees; he is the Ossetian counterpart of the Circassian smith Tlepsh. (secondary)

Sources

• The heavenly smith of the Ossetians and a close friend of the Narts, whose epithet is 'the heavenly one'; he tempered the steel body of Batraz and the body of Soslan, and he shoes the dead man's horse for the journey to the other side.: Reference treatment of Kurdalægon: the heavenly deity of blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology and a close friend of the Narts, whose epithet is 'the heavenly one'; he shoes the dead man's horse and so helps him on his journey to the other side; he forged the body of the steel hero Batraz by quenching the white-hot infant in the sea after he was delivered from his father's back; he tempered Soslan's body in wolf's milk, which did not cover the knees; he is the Ossetian counterpart of the Circassian smith Tlepsh. (secondary)