Nana

Her story

Historical context

goddess · Pre-Christian Georgian belief, echoed in lullabies

Some scholars and folklorists connect the Georgian healing lullaby Iavnana with an older female divinity called Nana. Songs using the refrain were sung not only to children but also beside people who were ill, and their language evokes violets, roses, spring and maternal comfort. No continuous ancient cult can be securely reconstructed, so the divine identification remains debated.

Mythology & traditions

In the song tradition, healing arrives through repetition, flowers and the intimate presence of a caring voice rather than through a heroic contest. Nana’s mythology is therefore not preserved as a long narrative; it survives, if the scholarly connection is sound, as ritual poetry in which tenderness itself calls health back into the room.

In the oracle

Her guidance