ANCIENTS ROOTS AND SEMANTICS FIELD OF ETHNONIM KAS/KAŠ
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2019-3-67-76
EDN: WOIXVR
Abstract
The use of the root morpheme kas for the name of the ancient and medieval peoples of Eurasia is considered: helmets, Kassites, Caspians, Circassians. A connection is established between this ethnonym and the god of the moon in the Hutt, Cascian, Cassite pantheon – Kasku / Kashshu. It turns out how all this can be correlated with the cult of the moon and the sun in the Caucasus, with the formula of self-identification of the Circassian princes, with the heraldic symbols of the ancient peoples of the Middle East and Egypt, as well as with the self-name of the Kassites – galets. The etymology of the endoethnonym Galtz and the ethnonym Kas is presented, information about the secondary use of the ethnonym Cas for the names of countries, rivers, mountains (Caucasus), the sea (Caspian), cities, etc. It is emphasized that geographically and semantically, the ethnonym Cas is associated with the ancient history of the Circassian people.
About the Author
B. Kh. BGAZHNOKOV
The Institute for the Humanities Researches – affiliate of The Federal State Budgetary Scientific Establishment «Federal Scientific Center «Kabardian-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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BGAZHNOKOV B.Kh. ANCIENTS ROOTS AND SEMANTICS FIELD OF ETHNONIM KAS/KAŠ. E-Journal “Kavkazologiya”. 2019;(3):67-76. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2019-3-67-76. EDN: WOIXVR
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