Uastyrdzhi

WOMEN MAY NOT SAY HIS NAME, so the tradition supplies a second one: Lægty Dzuar, 'the Spirit of Men'. That is a name of the same figure and is carried as an alias, not as a separate record. He is also the most consequential absence in the Ossetian key: he is the figure Hetag prays to, the figure the Rekom shrine belongs to, and the figure the sources name as Satana's father.

Domains

• patronage of men
• travellers
• war and raiding
• oaths
• mediation between god and people

Relations

• named as father of in the nart epic: SatanaWRITTEN FROM THIS END ONLY, AND FLAGGED RATHER THAN IMPOSED. The sources name Uastyrdzhi as the father of Satana in the Nart epic. The pre-existing record ossetian_satana gives her parents as Akhsartæg and Dzerassæ, and this lane does not alter pre-existing genealogy: changing her parentIds would also change her computed tier from quartigod to demigod. The discrepancy is recorded here and escalated in the audit rather than silently resolved in either direction.Reference treatment of Uastyrdzhi (Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. UASTYRDŽI; Ossetian folklore): a popular Ossetian cultic figure, patron of men — particularly of masculine activities such as war, raiding and travelling — and overseer of oaths; Uastyrdzhi is the name of Saint George in Ossetian folklore; he is also called Lagtydzuar or Lagdzuar and more rarely Uastylag; he is available exclusively to males, and women may not even pronounce his name but refer to him as Lægty Dzuar, 'the Spirit (Patron) of Men'; he is a guarantor of oaths like his Iranian counterpart Mithra; in the Nart epic he is a celestial depicted as a mighty warrior on a white horse, is named as the father of Satana, and performs the function of mediator between God and people; three of the important shrines dedicated to him are Rekom, Dzvgisy dzuar and Styr Xoxy dzuar. (secondary)

Sources

• Patron of men and of masculine activity — war, raiding and travelling — and the overseer and guarantor of oaths; the name of Saint George in Ossetian folklore, and in the Nart epic a celestial who rides a white horse and mediates between God and people.: Reference treatment of Uastyrdzhi (Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. UASTYRDŽI; Ossetian folklore): a popular Ossetian cultic figure, patron of men — particularly of masculine activities such as war, raiding and travelling — and overseer of oaths; Uastyrdzhi is the name of Saint George in Ossetian folklore; he is also called Lagtydzuar or Lagdzuar and more rarely Uastylag; he is available exclusively to males, and women may not even pronounce his name but refer to him as Lægty Dzuar, 'the Spirit (Patron) of Men'; he is a guarantor of oaths like his Iranian counterpart Mithra; in the Nart epic he is a celestial depicted as a mighty warrior on a white horse, is named as the father of Satana, and performs the function of mediator between God and people; three of the important shrines dedicated to him are Rekom, Dzvgisy dzuar and Styr Xoxy dzuar. (secondary)