Maiden
What you need to sow
Go higher than is comfortable. The new thing is above your usual altitude.
Georgia / Svan Caucasus
Dali
Golden-Haired Mistress of the High Peaks
Svaneti and the Georgian Caucasus — pre-Christian highland tradition surviving in ballads and hunting custom
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Her story
Historical context
goddess · Svaneti and the Georgian Caucasus — pre-Christian highland tradition surviving in ballads and hunting custom
Dali lives on the inaccessible crags of the Georgian Caucasus, guarding the wild herds. She grants a hunter extraordinary luck if he pleases her — and destroys him if he boasts of her, takes more than his share, or breaks his word.
Mythology & traditions
Svan ballads tell of hunters who climbed to her ledge and returned with impossible fortune, then fell from the same cliff after speaking of her in the village. Her golden hair is the thread in these songs: to be favoured by Dali is to be bound by a contract, and the terms are restraint and silence.
Domains
- Wild animals
- The hunt
- Mountain peaks
- Beauty and danger
- Limits
Symbols
- Ibex and chamois
- Golden hair
- Cliff ledge
- Snow
- Hunter's rifle laid down
In the oracle
Her guidance
Mother
What you need to grow
Nurture your discretion. Not everything alive in you should be discussed yet.
Crone
What you need to know
Know that taking more than your share ends the luck. The limit is the gift.
Her tradition
Georgian Tradition
Sun and healing goddesses of pre-Christian Georgia.
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