Taranjelos

THE THIRD 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.

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)