GARGAREANS
In
Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, (Greek: Gargareis)
were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons
annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. Varying accounts
suggest that they may have been kidnapped, raped, and murdered for
this purpose, or that they may have had relations willingly. The
Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and
gave the males to the Gargareans.
The
Gargareans are held by some historians to be a component of the
ancestry of the Chechen and the Ingush peoples, and equivalent or
at least related to the Georgian name Dzurdzuks. Adrienne Mayor
wrote about the Ghalghai/Gergar and mentions an old Ingush legend
about a Maiden's Tower located in the Assa gorge in Ingushetia.
![](caucasusmountains.jpg)
Caucasus
mountains (above Georgia marked in red)
Strabo
wrote that "... the Amazons live close to Gargarei, on the
northern foothills of the Caucasus mountains". The Amazons
were attributed to the Circassians via the root maze. Gaius Plinius
Secundus also localizes Gargarei at North of the Caucasus, but calls
them Gegar. Some scholars (P.K. Uslar, K. Miller, N.F. Yakovleff,
E.I. Krupnoff, L.A. Elnickiy, I.M. Diakonoff, V.N. Gemrakeli) supported
that Gargarei is an earlier Ingush ethnonym. Jaimoukha suggests
that the myth might have been a nod to the similarity between Circassians
and Durdzuks, despite their very different languages. The Ancient
Greek chronicler Strabo mentioned that Gargareans had migrated from
eastern Asia Minor (i.e. Urartu) to the North Caucasus. Jaimoukha
notes that Gargareans is one of many Nakh roots- gergara, meaning,
in fact, "kindred" in proto-Nakh.
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org