Djansha was captured and enslaved:
"...when the Pshi, petty prince or warlord, of the Abbats..." (p. 56)
- attacked. I cannot find either "Pshi" or "Abbat."
Her and Lucas' fellow passengers are mostly Levantines, including:
Armenians;
Athenians;
Vlachs;
Bulgars.
Djansha does not want to return home and become a wife of a hokotl, peasant. She asks Seosseres to send "'...good winds and smooth waters..." (p. 58)
A great part of the people had remained faithful to the worship of their ancient gods—Shible, the god of thunder, of war and of justice; Tleps, the god of fire; and Seosseres, the god of water and of winds.
-copied from the link for "hokotl," see above.
I could not find Shible before but now he shows up.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The Caucasus was also where a remnant of the Goths and their language survived till, I think, about 1600. It seems that, after the Huns overran the original homeland of the Goths in what is now Ukraine, some of the Goths took refuge in the Caucasus instead of joining in invading the Roman Empire.
And of course we both know the Goths from Anderson's "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."
Ad astra!
Kaor, Paul!
I erred in my above comment. It was in the Crimean peninsula that we see Goths, not the Caucasus.
Ad astra! Sean
Post a Comment