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Frontispiece from Svaneti, Human Nature Preserve Lithograph of the North Caucasus countryside from Russian Empire Geography, 1914. Body of ram and horns symbolizing old cult, overlay Christian icon. From Russian Empire Geography, 1914. Stone cornice-piece exemplifies veneration of rams and horns in Svaneti.
Sketch of church interior in Upper Svanetia, wooden cross buttressed by horns. |