“If our lives be short let our fame be great!” The legends of the Nart people still echo across the Caucasuses, and of them, we will start with the tale of a golden tree. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqRt6uhy7A Join on Patreon: http://bit.ly/EMPatreon | Extra History

Professor John Colarusso talks about the Circassian Nart Sagas Professor John Colarusso talks about the centrality of the Circassian Nart Sagas in world mythology. Interview by Will Linn of The Mythology Channel. Published on 8 August 2017. Prof. Colarusso is the author of “Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs” [Princeton University Press, 2002, 2016] Watch the whole interview on The Mythology Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P

"Nart Sosriqwe Fetches Fire": A Circassian "Promethean" Tale [«Сосрыкъуэ МафIэ Къехь»] This song from ancient Circassian mythology relates the story of how Nart Sosriqwe, the chief protagonist of the Nart Epos, outwitted the one-eyed Giant to get away with stealing a fire-brand from his bleak tower to light a fire for the Nart horsemen, who had been caught in a devilish blizzard. Unlike his Greek counterpart Prometheus, who was chained by Zeus, the Supreme God of the Greek Pantheon, to Mount Cau

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