Characters
Some of the characters who feature prominently in the sagas are:
- Sosruko (Ubykh, Abkhaz and Adyghe sawsərəqʷa (Саусырыкъо), Ossetian soslan (Сослан)), a hero who sometimes also appears as a trickster;
- Satanaya (Ubykh satanaja, Adyghe setenej (Сэтэнай), Ossetian: satana (Сатана)), the mother of the Narts, a fertility figure and matriarch;
- Tlepsh (Adyghe and Abaza , Ossetian Kwyrdaləgon (Куырдалæгон)), a blacksmith deity;
- Syrdon (Ossetian: Syrdon (Сырдон)) a trickster figure compared by Georges Dumezil to the Norse Loki.
- Pkharmat (Chechen: Pẋarmat Пхьармат), in Vainakh epos, a blacksmith figure that steals fire from the gods for the mortals .
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