Rekom

THE FIRST OF GOD'S THREE TEARS FOR BATRAZ. These are the three great Ossetian sanctuaries, and the epic makes them heavenly-dwellers rather than mere places — which is why they are held as figures. The corpus already had the tears, on Batraz's own record, and not one of the three. Rekom is also named among the great shrines of Uastyrdzhi.

Domains

• arisen from a tear of god
• sanctuary patronage

Relations

• arose from a tear shed for: 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 'sacred-spring-tear-progenitor — holy spring(s) arising from God's tears', so the corpus recorded the tears and not the three that grew from them.Reference treatment of Rekom, Mykalgabyrtæ and Taranjelos: in the Nart epic the heavenly-dwellers Mikalgabirta, Rekom and Taranjelos arose where God's three tears fell, shed over the death of Batraz; Mikalgabirta is a popular cult among Ossetian Christians, which carries the names of the two angel-saints Michael and Gabriel, and Mykalgabyrtæ is one of the three main sanctuaries of Ossetia; Rekom is also named among the important shrines dedicated to Uastyrdzhi. (secondary)

Sources

• One of the three heavenly-dwellers who arose where God's three tears fell, shed over the death of Batraz, and one of the three great sanctuaries of Ossetia.: Reference treatment of Rekom, Mykalgabyrtæ and Taranjelos: in the Nart epic the heavenly-dwellers Mikalgabirta, Rekom and Taranjelos arose where God's three tears fell, shed over the death of Batraz; Mikalgabirta is a popular cult among Ossetian Christians, which carries the names of the two angel-saints Michael and Gabriel, and Mykalgabyrtæ is one of the three main sanctuaries of Ossetia; Rekom is also named among the important shrines dedicated to Uastyrdzhi. (secondary)