ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

DOI 10.23671/VNC.2018.66.11463

Delicacy and mutual respect were always the basis of the behavioural etiquette of the Caucasians. The Caucasus is home for many peoples with unique culture, distinctive individuality and their own worldview. To figure peculiarities of mentality of the peoples, that reside in this region, one need to have perfect intuition, tact and appropriate education. Researches have always been fascinated by the diversity of the Caucasus. There is a certain number of common Caucasian issues that remain relevant notwithstanding the socio-political conjuncture. One of such issues is the Nartiada. The Ossetian-Balkar-Karachay Nart parallels stated in the title of the presented article are given in Khamid Khashimovich Malkonduev's monograph, who is a Balkarian scientist, Ph.D. in Linguistics, a folklorist and a turcologist. The title of his book is "Karachay-Balkar Nart Sagas. Theory. Historicism. Originality". Researchers usually tend to review their colleagues' works in a critical way. We will try to find in this work common ground and ideas that can unite us in the all-Caucasian space, but not to sow the seeds of division or incomprehension, since we are meant to live together here, in the Caucasus, in friendship and harmony. The monograph is reviewed from the point of view of a professional historian, not a folklorist. The author of the monograph must be credited for his objectivity and unbiased attitudes, which he maintains in spite of the pressures and volatility of the public opinion. It is common knowledge, that V.I. Abaev's work published in 1945 "The Narts’ Epos", in which he stated the international character of the epos, instigated active studying of the national versions of Nartiada. At the same time Abaev asserted, that the Alania epic cycle introduced to the Caucasus by the ancestors of the present-day Ossetians constitute the core of the Narts’ sagas". These words serve as a keynote of the present article.

Keywords: Narts, Uruzmag, Satana, Ossetians, Karachays, Balkars, Abaev.

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