Legends of the Caucasus by David Hunt

Author:David Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780863568237
Publisher: Saqi

This Georgian legend was self-recorded by Vakhtang Razikashvili of the village of Chargali in Pshavi, Georgia. It was published in E. B. Virsaladze, Gruzinskie okhotnichy mif i poeziya, Nauka, Moscow, 1976, 306–308.

40. The Balkh Meadow (Georgian)

The mountain Chitkharo, which separates Svaneti from Racha, is full of jikhvis. Often the people from both Svaneti and Racha used to go there hunting, and they made common use of the pastures on this mountain. They say that on this mountain there are pastures on to which man’s foot has never stepped; a certain meadow there is called the Balkh, such that the grass grows there winter and summer. The grass grows there up to a man’s waist. The flocks of jikhvis on that meadow are innumerable. The only entrance to it is narrow and inaccessible. The foot of man has not trod there. There was, so they say, a certain renowned hunter. One day, quite accidentally, he landed up at the entrance to the Balkh Meadow. But then, as it happened, the jikhvis that graze there sensed the approach of the man by his scent, and with a hissing the whole flock rushed to the entrance, in order to throw the uninvited guest off into the abyss. Then they darted at the man, but the hunter managed to hide behind a crag and miraculously survived. They say there is a great variety of grasses on the Balkh Meadow.

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