The Man in the Panther Skin (Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther Skin, Text and Versions, Edited by Akaki Shanidze and Alexandre Baramidze, Tbilisi, 1966)

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Author	Shota Rustaveli
Epoch	XII-XIII
Work	The Man in the Panther Skin (Shota Rustaveli, The Man in the Panther Skin, Text and Versions, Edited by Akaki Shanidze and Alexandre Baramidze, Tbilisi, 1966)
Type	Poetry
Quote	“She said to them: ‘Go and lose her there, where is the navel (i.e., the midst) of the sea’” (584, 1)
Term	the navel (i.e., the midst) of the sea ( Homer, Odyssey )

Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.

Comment	The expression “the navel of the land”, i.e., the very middle of the land, is found in a number of literary works of the antiquity and Medieval period, unlike the expression “the navel of the sea” (i.e., the midst of the sea), which occurs, as far as it can be determined, only in “The Man in the Panther Skin” (584, 1) and “Odyssey” (I, 50: ”Hothi t’ omphalos esti thalasses” - “where is the navel of the sea”). See in details the “Moly” in the present Encyclopedia. [Z.Kh.]

Comment

The expression “the navel of the land”, i.e., the very middle of the land, is found in a number of literary works of the antiquity and Medieval period, unlike the expression “the navel of the sea” (i.e., the midst of the sea), which occurs, as far as it can be determined, only in “The Man in the Panther Skin” (584, 1) and “Odyssey” (I, 50: ”Hothi t’ omphalos esti thalasses” - “where is the navel of the sea”). See in details the “Moly” in the present Encyclopedia. [Z.Kh.]

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