#king tamar

[i-merani]

King Tamar's Hunting by Apolon Kutateladze, oil on canvas (1971)

[historicalstories]

sketch requests from instagram 🖤

[rotten-sarcophagus]

Women can be Kings too

maan... fuck the people who keep changing King Tamar's official title and position as King into Queen. disrespectful. I tired changing it myself and a day later it was brought back

stop changing real history, just because it does not conform to your shitty ideals

[corrnellia]

Georgian literature series ↓

The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Georgian: ვეფხისტყაოსანი, translit.: vepkhist'q'aosani; literally "one with a skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli. A definitive work of the Georgian golden age, the poem consists of over 1600 Rustavelian Quatrains and is considered to be a "masterpiece of the Georgian literature".

The poem takes place in broad locations, India and Arabia, colorful lands far away from the eastern European Georgian nation. Both lands allegorize the golden age of Georgia and the rule of Queen Tamar. There are two protagonists in the poem, who set out together to find love. The poem is widely regarded to be the meeting point for Georgian philosophy, art and thought. Rustaveli composed the poem in the middle of this golden age, when everything in Georgia was thriving and at its peak. Even the natural world seemed positively affected by Queen Tamar and her rule. Rustaveli was personally acquainted with the beautiful monarch, and some believe that he was also the crown treasurer.

Rustaveli is considered to be one of Georgia's greatest ever literary influences and this poem is the national poet of Georgia even today. Legend has it that he was educated in a monastery and that he retired to the same monastery after retiring from his position in the treasury. 

Outside of Georgia, interest in the poem first appeared in 1802, when Eugene Bolkhovitinov published a verbatim translation of the first stanza of the poem into Russian. In France in 1828, Marie-Félicité Brosset made his first partial French translation, In the 19th century the poem saw full translations into Polish, German and Russian.

"For the goddess whom David the sun serves in his course by all rights, I have put this tale into verse as entertainment for her nights. She who strikes terror from the East to the West, wherever she fights: Those who are traitors, she destroys; those who are loyal, she delights. ’’

"The sun shines alike on roses and dung, on everything we see. You, alike to the greatest and the lowly, merciful should be. The one, who's getting bound, binds himself; the generous bind the free. The sea's waters flow in and flow out: be generous like the sea.’’

[gowriter]

Tamar the Great of Georgia (1160-1213)

Of that lion whom the use of lance, shield and sword adorns, of the king, the sun T’hamara, the ruby-cheeked, the jet-haired, of her I know not how I shall dare to sing the manifold praise; they who look upon her must offer her the sweets for which she hungers. By shedding tears of blood we praise King T’hamara, whose praises I, not ill-chosen, have told forth. For ink I have used a lake of jet, and for pen a pliant crystal. Whoever hears, a jagged spear will pierce his heart!

ვის ჰშვენის, - ლომსა, - ხმარება შუბისა, ფარ-შიმშერისა, - მეფისა მზის თამარისა, ღაწვ-ბადახშ, თმა-გიშერისა, - მას, არა ვიცი, შევჰკადრო შესხმა ხოტბისა, შე, რისა? მისთა მჭვრეტელთა ყანდისა მირთმა ხამს მართ, მი, შერისა. თამარს ვაქებდეთ მეფესა სისხლისა ცრემლ-დათხეული, ვთქვენი ქებანი ვისნი მე არ-ავად გამორჩეული. მელნად ვიხმარე გიშრის ტბა და კალმად მე ნა რხეული, ვინცა ისმინოს, დაესვას ლახვარი გულსა ხეული.

The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, Shota Rustaveli ვეფხისტყაოსანი, შოთა რუსთაველი

[miyku]

King Tamar ↳ Civilization VI: Rise and Fall :  First Look: Georgia

[hereti]

[gowriter]

Queen Elizabeth the Great of England

Empress Catherine the Great of Russia

King Tamar the Great of Georgia