Literature

Sh. Thavberidze

Fate Deities in Georgian Folklore

The artical is about divine creatures such as - "bedismtserali", God, st. George, angel, "cadjy" - that according to the belief of Georgian people determine a person’s fate. According to the folklore material two stages of folk thinking can be singled out: earliar notions about the master of fate and later ones created on the bases of the Christianity.

 

Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

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