The court pantheon of pre-Christian Kartli (Iberia), headed by the sky and war god Armazi and including Ghmerti, the older word for the divine that survived Christianization to become the modern Georgian word for God.
Facts
Attestation
Era of AttestationAttested from Georgian religion before the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in the fourth century CE, documented chiefly through later Georgian chronicle accounts of the pre-Christian pantheon. 1 Correspondences & Relations
Pantheon Members
Pantheon Of
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source The Georgians (Lang)
David Marshall Lang, Thames and Hudson, Ancient Peoples and Places vol. 51, 1966Lang's survey of the Georgian pantheon headed by Armazi
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