C33. Prometheus (chained strongman) .27.29.

The God-fighter has been chained to a rock or pole for centuries.

Ancient Greece, Adygs, Abkhazians, Kabardian, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Lacks, Swans, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Prometheus cut the bull's carcass; put meat and giblets wrapped in leather and covered in a bovine's stomach on one side, white bones covered with fat on the other; suggested Zeus make a choice; Zeus chose fat, then saw bones under it and became angry; since then, people have only burned bones on altars for the gods; after Zeus decided not to give people fire for anything, Prometheus stole it, "hiding it in the narfex with a floor"; when Zeus saw people's fire, he became angry and ordered Hephaestus and Athena to create "the likeness of a shy virgin" {Pandora, whose name is not directly mentioned in Theogony }; this maiden is descended from women living on earth; Zeus chained Prometheus to the "middle column" and sent an eagle to him; he ate Prometheus's liver every day, it grew again overnight; later Hercules killed this eagle and freed Prometheus]: Hes. Theog. 521-616; [the tragedy "Prometheus Chained", attributed to Aeschylus and staged no later than 430 BC: Prometheus steals fire from the gods, gives it to people; Hephaestus, by order of Zeus, chains Prometheus to the rock; Hermes warns Prometheus that an eagle will fly to him every day to peck out his liver]: Aesch. Prom.; ["Argonautics" by Apollonius of Rhodes (first half of the 3rd century BC): "Pontus's gyrus was floating in the distance, /And the high steeps of the Caucasus Mountains gradually began to grow. There, Prometheus was screwed to the indestructible cliffs/Copper ties, and he fed a large bird with his own /Cookie. The eagle flew incessantly. /In the evening, the heroes suddenly saw the eagle in fear. /It flew high above the ship to the clouds. But still /The sail began to swing with the wind of its wide wings./The bird looks so different from the eagle of heaven, /It waves its wings quickly, like oars. /Prometheus's loud moan was then heard by the heroes; /The eagle devoured the liver, pulling out pieces. Scream/The whole Ether shuddered. And soon the eagle returned /In the same way, and they saw the bloodbird again" (trans. N.A. Chistyakova)]: Apoll. Rhod. II. 1238-1251; ["This flower grew because it fell to the ground/Drops of the divine blood of that Prometheus the sufferer, /whose body was torn to pieces by a raw eagle. /A flower grows to the elbow along the slopes Caucasian, /Corician saffron similar in color brightness" (trans. N.A. Chistyakova)]: Apoll. Rhod. III. 846-850; ["Historical Library" by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC): "Zeus, who gave fire to people, chained and sent an eagle to devour his liver. Hercules, seeing that Prometheus was punished for his blessings to people, killed the eagle with an arrow and, convincing Zeus to calm his anger, saved the benefactor of all mankind" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]: Diod. Sic. IV. 15. 2; ["Prometheus mixed the earth with water and sculpted people and gave them fire secretly from Zeus, hiding it in a hollow reed stalk. When Zeus found out about this, he ordered Hephaestus to nail Prometheus's body to the Caucasus Range. This ridge is located in Scythia. There, chained to a rock, Prometheus had been bound for many years, and every day the eagle arrived and pecked out his liver blades, which grew back overnight. Prometheus suffered this punishment for stealing fire until Hercules later released it, as we will discuss in the chapter on Hercules" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. I. 7.1; [Hercules "in the Caucasus shot an eagle pecking Prometheus's liver with a bow: this eagle was the product of Echidna and Typhon. Hercules freed Prometheus, laid an olive wreath instead of his shackles removed, and provided Zeus with Chiron, who agreed to become mortal instead of Prometheus" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. II. 5. 11; [Myths attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the eras, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: "Nereid Thetis was predicted that her son would be stronger than his father. No one but Prometheus knew this, and Jupiter wanted to lie down with her, and Prometheus promised Jupiter that he would warn him if he freed him from his shackles. He promised, and Prometheus advised him not to join Thetis, lest the strongest be born and overthrow Jupiter from the kingdom as he did to Saturn himself. Then Thetis was married to Peleus, the son of Eak, and Hercules was sent to kill the eagle that tormented Prometheus's heart, and when the eagle was killed, Prometheus <каüни> was released thirty thousand years later from Caucasus Mountains" (per. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 54; ["People used to ask for fire from immortals and did not know how to keep it for long. Then Prometheus brought it to the ground in a fennel stalk and showed people how to keep it covered with ash. For this, Mercury, on Jupiter's orders, chained him with iron nails to a cliff on Mount Caucasus and put an eagle to him, which ate his heart - as much as he ate during the day, grew so much at night. This eagle was killed by Hercules thirty thousand years later and Prometheus released" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 144.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi: Aliyeva et al. 1974 (Temirgoevtsy) [sledge Nasyren is cursed by God, chained to a mountain; his dog tries to gnaw through the chain, but when it is as thick as the blacksmith's needle, every time it is again close; the eagle flies in, sits on a pole, N. throws a stone, hits a pole, each time only drives it deeper into the ground]: 273-274; Lopatinsky 1891a (Kabardian people) [the hero with one eye in his forehead dared to penetrate the secrets of Tha (God) and made his way into the crevice between the peaks of Elbrus; Tha chained him by the neck to a rock; the hero is old, his beard is knee-length; the Kite Tha comes to him every day and bites his heart; the hero leans to the spring, but the kite has time to drink all the water; the one who drinks this water will live until the end of the world; when Tha is angry with people, he will free his one-eyed, and then woe to people]: 38; Abkhazians : Gartzkia 1892, No. 2 [a girl promises not to marry; gives birth to a boy named Abrskill; he is powerful, kills red-haired and blue-eyed people, cuts vines if they prevent them from passing so as not to bow his head; God sent angels to catch him; A. on horseback jumps from mountain to sea, then back; the old woman advised to put greased skins on the mountain; A.'s horse slipped, the angels chained A. cave; God told the old woman to guard him, she began to secretly bring him food, God turned her into a dog; A.'s horse licks his chain, bringing him to the thickness of a silk thread; at this time, the hungry puppy opens the mouth is full, the chain is restored; one day a group of people came to A. in his cave, but did not see it; A. said that as they approached him, he was removed from them; people said that Abkhazia still came back]: 34-38; Zukhba 1995 [the demon seduced the maiden, Abrskil was born; imagined himself a god; he rushed in the sky on his horse, cut clouds with a sword, carving lightning; filling with stones dry cow skins, tied them to the saddle, the stones collided, sounding like thunder; God told the angels to grab him; they greased their skins, put them on the shore, the horse slipped, A. fell; he was chained to cave to the iron pole; or the woodpecker pierced A.'s staff with its beak, with which he jumped from mountain to shore; he fell; every year A. almost pulls out a pole; a wagtail sits on him, A. tries hit her with a hammer, the pole enters the ground]: 242-250; Lukyanov 1904, No. 3 [the giant is chained to a rock; his favorite dog licks the chain; as soon as the chain is rubbed, the giant will shake and destroy the earth]: 29; Hvartsky 1994:8-11 [], 12-16 [Princess Meghri gives birth to A. from an evil spirit; God sends angels to pacify him; the horse eats the chain of chained A.; every time he goes to drink water, the chain becomes thick again] , 17-22 [the girl Astana gives birth to A.; he calls the creator a friend, not a ruler; God sends angels to pacify A., they chain him to an iron stake; every time A. shakes a stake on a stake A bird sits down, a hammer drives the stake into the ground]; Chursin 1957 [Abrskill killed all the red and blue-eyed people, as well as the name Ashb; people stretched bull's skin on the road, poured millet on it, A. fell, God chained him in a cave; a cat and a dog lick the chain; every time she becomes thinner, an old watchman tells her to be strong again]: 244; Ossetians [monstrous Sameli was chained by God to the moon; therefore, there are spots on the moon; S.'s sons in the form of puppies try to free their father and begin to eat the moon; with the release of S., men will turn into donkeys, women into donkeys; only the genus of S. will avoid this fate; clans that consider themselves his descendants annually honor his memory with special rituals]: Miller 1882:299; Ingush: Dalgat 1972 [on Kazbek lies a young man chained to a rock for some crime; he moans in pain because a bird of prey bites his heart]: 51 (=2004:159); Dakhkilgov 2003 [Amiran is grieved for his audacity against the creator; his dogs chew on iron chains that are in New Year's Day is ready to fall apart; but then blacksmiths hit iron three times with hammers and the shackles are restored]: 108; Svetlov 1903 [Kuryuko steals sheep, water, and reeds from the thunder Sela to give people sheep, water, reeds to build dwellings; he is assisted by 7 sons S., who were supposed to guard the entrance to him; S. chained K. with iron chains to a mountain cliff (or to the top of Kazbek); every day an eagle flies to peck his heart K.; guard K. S. told his wife Fourka; she drew a magic circle on the snowy cone of the mountain; he could not be crossed under the threat of being thrown into the abyss; S.'s sons were hung from the sky as punishment, they became the Big Bear] in MNM 2:30; Tankiev 1997 [sart Pharmat stole fire from the hearth of the thunderstorm god Sela, brought it to people; for this S. ordered the one-eyed Already to chain P. with bronze chains to the top of Kazbek; every day A bird Ida arrives and bites his liver]: 45; Nogais (Tahir Akmanbetov's recording) [Topekosis lived near the seashore with one eye in his forehead; one tooth in his mouth, his soul under it; liked to drink the blood of the living creatures, especially humans; people stopped nearby; the warriors started shooting; those on the left side knocked out T.'s eye and the tooth on the right side; T. fell, drank the sea; Tangri tied him with a chain, chained him to the snowy the top of Askar Tau, where only a karakus can fly; the ancestors of the Karanogai settled on the dried bottom of the sea, which became a plain; near chained T. Tangry left a whip so that when Topekozu's mind returns, he could grab it with his teeth, whip it, the chain would break; but T. swallowed the whip; if the old man saw T., he would be younger and the young man would age; when T . gets angry and rattles with a chain, a carp (a fiery serpent with a head that looks like the head of a deer with horns) flies out of his mouth, begins to dance among the clouds, thunder]: Kapaev 2012:351-354; Lucky [hero Amir summoned the supreme god Hall to compete; he threw stones at him, but A. threw them away; Z. threw a rock that A. could not grab hold of; then A. wrapped a rope around the rock, and Z. turned the rope is chained and A. is chained to a rock; he cries, tears make the chain thinner; when he gets to work, every blacksmith must hit the anvil three times with a hammer, after which Amir's chain becomes thicker; . chained somewhere in the mountains]: Khalidova 2012, No. 61:80-81; Avars: Khalidova 2012, No. 57 [there is a place in the village of Machada from where you can see the heavenly rider; there is fire on the tip of his sword; this rider got for people fire], 60 (p. Nitab, Shamil District, 1957) [the hero did not want to recognize Allah and accept his religion; as punishment for this, he was chained to a rock; every morning an eagle flew in and pecked out his heart; after the eagle flew away, his heart again grew up and the hero came to life; this is how every day]: 77, 79-80; Svans: Lominadze 1903, No. 1 [blacksmith Darejiani from the top of Yalbuz (Elbrus) sees a crying beauty in the abyss on the golden ottoman, piles all around gold; goes down to her, she says that she is the wife of God Himself, who overthrew her for some crime; D.'s wife spies on him, cuts off the beautiful woman's hair; when D. comes, she rips open her his stomach, gives him their child, tells him to leave them at the crossroads, dies; Jesus Christ, St. George and one of the angels give the boy the name Amiran; if he breaks this word three times, he will fall under the power of the devil; the dying hero tells A. to raise his two sons; they have become strong, and . killed them, the devils began to chase him; the next time he beat his horse; after the third violation of the word, the devils chained him to an iron pole in the abyss near Elbrus; he is also tied to a pole nine-headed divas; both try to reach checker A.; A. will be able to reach if his nails grow; therefore, swans do not cut off their nails during the first four days of the week; at this time they also grow in A .; the devils bird reports every time that the devils cut off their nails; one day A. will take possession of a sword, the diva will kill, golden times will come], 2 [poor parents have a son in old age; Christ called him Amiran; he defeated all the devas, summoned God himself to compete; he was immediately chained to an iron pole at the bottom of the abyss; nine hunters found him; he squeezed their bread, and blood flowed, his own is milk; said that life is so different now and with him; the Swans could not pick up his sword to serve him; the belt broke; they went for a strong belt, but could no longer find it; he tries to pull out a pole; every time a bird sits on the tip of a pole, screams, Amiran leaves; A. swings at it, puts a pole in the ground]: 141-144, 145-147; Chikovani 1954, No. 32 []: 173-181; Georgians: Janashvili 1903b [Amiran is the son of Sulkalmakh and Darejan, his older brothers Badri (looks like a girl) and Usip (looks like a crystal fortress); his godfather is Jesus Christ; A. finds the deceased Tsamtsum , Usip's grandson; he killed all the giants, he could not alone; the brothers meet this girl, he replies that he is going to devour Tsamtsum, Usip's grandson; A. kills him, he manages to talk about the girl Kamar overseas; from his three heads crawl out white, red, black worms, turn into dragons; black swallows A., brothers cut off his tail, A. cuts it from the inside, comes out bald; Igry made him hair; K. A. breaks the cup, all the dishes fly to the sky to her father; the chase; A. kills everyone by hitting Father K. in the legs, but his brothers died, he kills himself; the mouse licks the blood, K. kills the mouse, the mouse heals him , K. revives A. with the same grass; A. wins everyone, calls Jesus Christ; he offers him to pull the stake out of the ground; the stake turns into a tree to heaven, A. is attached to him; the raven delivers him every day bread and wine; the dog tries to lick the chain; on Good Thursday morning, all blacksmiths hit the anvil three times with hammers, the chain is restored; A. will be free on doomsday]: 158-167; Stamboliev 1896, No. 13 [A shepherd finds a cave where Amiran is chained; he says that he stole fire from heaven for people; an old man came to fight him, he lost consciousness, woke up chained; every seven years an angel brings him food and water, opens the cave wall; the shepherd ran to bring chains and ropes so that A. could pull up his sword lying at a distance; a group of hunters detained him; when the shepherd reached the cave , the entrance to it was closed]: 91-95; Stepanov 1893 [Amiran is God's godson; wants to go to fight the hero Ambrius; to save his godson from shame, God sends death to Ambria; the widow asks for it Amiran to fix the deceased's hand, Amiran cannot lift it; Amiran invites God himself to fight him; God suggests that he tie his leg to the stake with a lace, try to tear it; the lace turns into an iron chain; Amiran has inexhaustible bread and a jug of water in his hands; a sword at a distance, you can't reach it; the dog licks the chain, it is ready to break by Good Thursday, but in the morning all the blacksmiths hit with a hammer, the chain recovering; one day a hunter wandered to Amiran; could not lift his sword; Amiran sent him to pick up his sword for him, ordered a woman not to let his sword slip along the way (all blacksmiths and women are enemies Amirana, because they make chains and shoelaces); he let it slip, the entrance to the cave is closed]: 135-139; Chikovani 1986 [hunter Dargelan hears a woman scream, climbs a rock, Dali is there, he stayed with her; his lame the wife climbed the rock, cut off D.'s braids; she said that she would not live now, asked that their son Amiran be removed from her womb; if he stayed in her womb until the deadline, he would have defeated God; the child would need three months keep him in a calf tripe, then leave him on the bank of the Yamana River; the angel baptized him, put a dagger in his leg, said that no one would defeat him on the ground; A. got up from the cradle, beat Jaman's servants, who laughed at him; I. took him as a friend to his sons Usibi and Badri; all three grew up bullying people; they advise better revenge on the offender, because I. lost an eye; the mother does not want to speak , the brothers put hot khachapuri to her chest; dev wanted to take W. and B., I. gave his eyes in return; dev locks his brothers; his sister is chained in a corner; falling asleep, promises to eat A.; sister teaches to give she will pull a chain for her, she will pull the deva's sword stored in oil (A. himself will not pull it out of the oil), let A. put it to the neck of the sleeping maiden; A. killed the deva; breaking his oath, did not release him, but killed his sister; brothers they meet a deva who knocks his hair, the spindle is a millstone; he swallows A.; W. cuts off his tail; brothers shout to Amiran that his dagger is in his leg; A. stabs the deva from the inside; does not want to go out through his mouth or ass, makes a hole in his side; one of his eyes remains inside the deva; he tells him to anoint his eye socket with a piece of his liver and lung, the eye recovers; A. laid the deva's side with a wooden flap, ordered return I.'s eye; the eye is in the box on the pole, the brothers return it to Yaman; the devas offer Amiran to get Ketu, the daughter of Keklutz the king, she is in a tower suspended from the sky; the deva makes a bridge across the sea from her braids, A. swears that he will take her with him; the brothers crossed when the woman was in the middle of the bridge, A. cut the braid, the woman fell into the sea; so A. broke his oath for the second time; Andreob is being taken to bury the alive, the dead would not be brought; one leg hung from the arba, plows the earth, A. threw it on the arba; Andreob asks for a hand, A. gives a rock, Andreob squeezes it with his hand; Andreob asks A. to take it with him He took his son; fearing that he would become too strong, killed; so for the third time he broke his oath; A. cut off the chains of the tower, Ketu and he fell in love with each other; K. teaches how to find a gap in her father's armor, A. cuts off his head; Ketu revives W. and B., who were killed by her father; A. even fought with God; he chained him to an iron pole; Kursh's dog is chained with him; both drag a pole, are about to tear it out; every year God sends a bird; that will sit on a pole, A. will swing, hit a pole, it enters the ground again; Kursha is an Orbi eagle puppy; she has one puppy with her chicks every spring; Kursha has eagle wings on her sides; God chained him together with A., because he destroyed many tours; the Svans cry for Kursh]: 284-294; Mashurko 1894:379 (vol. 9, dep. 2, p. 179, Imereti) [the queen of witches Rokapi is tied by God with an iron chain to an iron pole; she tries to pull it out; every time a shaktail appears and sits on a pole; R. tries to kill it with a hammer, but the bird flies away, and when hit, the pole goes deeper into the ground], 379-381 [Amiran promised to defeat God; the old man invited him to thread a needle, stick a needle into the rock, and throw a thread over himself; the needle became an iron stake, and the thread became a chain; a shepherd came, A. asked him to bring him a chain, so that he could use it to pull up a sword lying at a distance; the shepherd brought a chain, but his wife followed him and called out; the shepherd turned around, threw a chain at it, A. disappeared from sight; Amiran's dog licks the chain; in Great Thursday it must break; then the blacksmiths hit the anvil and the chain is restored; if A. is free, he will destroy all women and blacksmiths]; Megrelians [Amiran is the godson of Christ, invited him to fight him; he asked him to tear his threads first; put on threads, they turned into chains; A. pulls the stake and it rises; every year a quagmire tit arrives, which The Mingrelians consider it sacred and sits on a stake; A. tries to hit her with a club, the bird flies away, and he drives the stake deeper into the ground]: Mashurko 1894:378-379; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2004 [brave Artavazd at the curse of his father, King Artashes, the Kaji are shackled in the cave of Mount Masis; white and black dogs chew on his chains to free him; on New Year's Eve, the shackles become thinner, but when blacksmiths hammer blows The anvil is being restored again; if Artavazd could free himself, he would destroy the world]: 199; Ganalanyan 1979, No. 750 [Artavazd is chained in a cave; two dogs chewing on chains; at the sound of blacksmiths the shackles are being restored; therefore, blacksmiths hit the anvil three or four times on Sunday; otherwise A. will destroy the world], 811 [Artavazd has a possessed son Shidar; A. handed over the kingdom not to him; when S. He stepped on the bridge as horsemen, evil spirits threw him off, he died; the warriors spread the rumor that S. was chained inside the mountain; two dogs were licking chains, by the end of the year they would become like hair; if they break, S. would destroy the world; in At the beginning of the year, blacksmiths and other artisans hit three times with their tools, the chains are restored]: 241, 261; Shahnazaryan 1988 [David's son of Sasunsky broke the chains with which he was braided as a baby; he was named by the name of his grandfather Mher; his parents soon died; brother D. Chinchhaporik took his property, began to raise M.; his wife is afraid of M.'s strength, advises him to get rid of him; he goes to his grandfather's land, lives there; he is advised to better regain Sasun; his uncle drives him away , M. does not dare to kill him; M. is hired as an employee, kills those who offended him; kills a tiger; divides the river in two so that it does not flood the shores; builds a fortress; smashes Sasun; people curse him; he enters to Voronov Cave by Lake Van, it closes; it contains some water and bread, clover to the horse; on the day of ascension, people are afraid that M. will come out; one day he leaves, the old man replies that the world is still the same; M. promises to go out, when the people call him]: 61-86.