About The One Svanetian Legend “water” (Becho - According To The Materials Of 2015 Expedition)

Abstract

Water is considered as a starting point of the world, as a nuisancer of life. The symbolic of the water is also rich in almost every religion: Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam. The majority of the world myths the life started in the water. That’s the reason of the existence of mythic gods of water.

According to the material written during the expedition in Svaneti in 2015 the water is considered as a healer from the snake bite, according to the verbal saying, crossing the water in this case has the function of injection.

According to a legend the man was left alone by everyone - a tree, grass, bush, flower, they taught the snake the way towards a man, but the water didn’t betray him, telling as if she had passed by at the given moment and hadn’t seen a man. So, if a snake bites a man, he should cross the water and will survive from poisoning.

This legend again proves the lifesaving power of the water, but we didn’t found the proof of using it as a kind of medicine savior from the snake bite used in verbal sayings or local prayers.