NATELA KHINCHIGASHVILI - Tbilisi State University

IRMA KVELASHVILI
Georgia, Tbilisi
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature
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Folk Prose, Saint George and “Patron Saint” in
Vazha-Pshavela’s “Bakhtrioni”
According to the Georgian prose, while scientific research of Saint George
nature and character his multivalency becomes obvious; He manages weather,
harvest, he is patron of peasants, he pormotes fertility, he is also a healer and
defender of just. In divine hierarchy his position is defined near Jesus Christ.
According to folk prose Christians trust in Saint Georgia more than Jesus
Christ. Not only in folk prose , but in Vazha-Pshavela’s “Bakhtrioni” as well,
Saint George is idolezed with different epithets and functions, he is the inimitable
character with his divine power and the icon of Saint Goerge is the unique
phenomena in Goergian thinking.
Key words: Vazha-Pshavela, folklore, Saint George, "Bakhtrioni".
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saqarTvelo, Tbilisi
SoTa rusTavelis qarTuli literaturis instituti
xalxuri prozis wminda giorgi da `batoni~
vaJa-fSavelas `baxtrionSi~
wlebis ganmavlobaSi araerTi disciplinis mkvlevari interesdeboda
wm. giorgis xatiT; filologebs, istorikosebs, eTnologebsa
da xelovnebaTmcodneebs Soris arsebobda azrTa
sxvadasxvaoba misi warmomavlobis Sesaxeb. mravali funqciis matarebeli
wmindanis paralelebs eZebden warmarTul RvTaebeb-
Tan, igi asocirdeboda presevsTan, TamuzTan, e.i. mokvdav da
aRdgenad RvTaebasTan (surgulaZe 1983: 6), qarTul mecnierul
literaturaSi damkvidrebuli iyo Sexeduleba, romlis mixedviT
wm. giorgi warmarTobisdroindel mTavar RvTaebas Caenacvla
(javaxiSvili 1979), aseve gamoiTqva mosazreba, romlis mixedviT
wm. giorgi ver Caenacvleboda erT romelime RvTaebas da
misi kulti TandaTan unda yofiliyo formirebuli (surgulaZe
1983), wm. giorgis kults ukavSirebdnen miTraizmsac (kekeliZe
1945: 353), aseve igi miaCndaT iafeturi xalxebisTvis damaxasiaTebel
kultadac (mari 1938: 105).