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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.12.5.006 T. A. GURIEV ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOD OF SAFA
Ktsoeva, Sultana G.
Kavkaz Forum. 2021. Issue 5.
Abstract:
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the research concept of the origin and essence of the deity Safa of the Ossetian pantheon, which belongs to one of the leading Ossetian scholars Tamerlan Alexandrovich Guriev. The concept is presented in the article «Herodot’s Hestia / Tabiti and Safa in the Ossetian Nartyada» [1]. The complexity, «multi-layered» nature of the object under study to this day keeps the discussion in the scientific community. Until now, there is no unequivocal answer about the origins of the appearance of Safa, his true essence, image and character, the etymology of the name. We aim to consider another version interpreting Safa’s onomastics and his sacred functions, presented in the concept of the reknown linguist Tamerlan Aleksandrovich Guriev, subject it to scientific analysis and determine the degree of its integration into modern Ossetian studies. The novelty of the research lies in the undertaken cross-analysis of two different concepts of Safa advanced by T. A. Guriev and B. A. Alborov with the aim of finding a number of similar conclusions, to which both scientists at different times came completely independently, which, in turn, indirectly confirms their objectivity. A significant and basic difference in points of view (BA Alborov considered Safu to be derived from the proto-Jewish god Sabaoth, and T. A. Guriev – the Scythian goddess Tabiti), did not prevent the scientists from coming to general conclusions. The most significant similarities between both concepts include the conclusion about Safa’s solarity (though interpreted in different ways) and that the deity is in fact the result of masculinization.
Keywords: T. A. Guriev, Safa, B. A. Alborov, Tabiti, Sabaoth, masculinization, solar symbolism
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