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Myths From the Forest of Circassia |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: John Colarusso |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,024 Words, 16,932 Characters |
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In the southernmost part of European Russia, near the Soviet Union's border with Turkey and Iran, rise the highest mountains in Europe, the mighty massif of the Caucasus. In the complex topography of this region live many tribes and ethnic groups, most of whom speak languages unrelated to any others on earth. One of these groups is the Circassians, famed for the beauty of their women and the bravery of their men, not to speak of the bewildering complexity of their language. Since remotest antiquity their homeland has been the northwest region of the Caucasus (though today, many live outside the Soviet Union). In the Caucasus the Circassians have pursued a pastoralist way of life on the plains abutting the mountains, and an existence based on animal husbandry (especially horse-breeding), fa...
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...asus one might see a Caucasian origin for tree veneration as well.
The next time one gazes upon a Christmas tree, with its boughs of lights and balls, or strolls through an impressive forest gazing upon mighty trees, one might pause to reflect upon how they once seemed to humankind to be living embodiments both of life-giving powers and of the very span and breadth of the cosmos itself.
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