The order of the figures from left to right is: Movakan, Bardos, Kartlos, Haos, Lekos, Thargamos, Caucas, Egros. An opening folio of the Georgian Chronicles (Vakhtangiseuli redaction), 1700s.
Caucas or Kavkasus was the mythic ancestor of Caucasians. His story is narrated in the compilation of the medieval Georgian chronicles, Kartlis Cxovreba, taken down from oral tradition by Leonti Mroveli in the 11th century. The legend has it that he was a son of Targamos and, thus, brother of Haos, Movakos, Lekos, Heros, Kartlos (known to be ancestor of Georgian people, and Egros from whom other peoples of the region (Georgians of Kolkheti (egrisi civilisation), Armenians) took their origin.
Caucas' son Dzurdzuk is said to be the ancestor of modern Chechens and Ingush.[1]
Descendants
References
- ^ G.Qoranashvili (1995), Questions of Ethnic Identity According to Leonti Mroveli's Historical Chronicles, Studies, Vol. 1, Tbilisi.
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