Khonischala ( ka, ხონისჭალა) are two villages settled by the
Shetekauri’s family (Khone for winter, and Khonischala for summer period). Villages are located in
Dusheti District on the northern slope of Tushet-Khevsusreti part of the
Caucasus mountain range, at 1200-1300 meter above the sea level, 138 km distance from
Dusheti
Dusheti () is a town in Georgia (country), Georgia, the administrative center of Dusheti Municipality, in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti mkhare, region, 54 km northeast of the nation's capital of Tbilisi.
History
Dusheti is on both banks of the small ...
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Legend
The icon of
Archangel
Archangels () are the second lowest rank of angel in the Catholic hierarchy of angels, based on and put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book ''De Coelesti Hierarchia'' (''On the Celestial Hierarchy'') ...
has been considered as the main patron of the village
Mutso
Mutso ( ka, მუცო) is a small village in Georgia (country), Georgia. One of the former strongholds of the historic Georgian province of Khevsureti (now part of Mtskheta-Mtianeti region), it is located on a rocky mountain (1880 m) on the righ ...
during the centuries. The icon was kept on the mount Daquekhi ( ka, დაქუეხი) (mountain
Tebulosmta
Tebulosmta (, ; ka, ტებულოს მთა, ''Tebulos mta''; ) is the highest mountain of the Eastern Caucasus and the highest mountain of the Chechen Republic at an elevation of 4,493 meters (14,737 feet) above sea level. The mountain ...
, ka, თბულოსმთა) which is always covered by snow. People of the village were not able to go to the icon and pray there. They sacrificed an ox and asked the icon to come down to a more accessible place. The icon heard the prayer and moved to a holy place in Khone. After that, people started praying there.
Archangel was saving his village from black death (plague; ka, ჟამნი) One infected man ran out naked from another village and swam through the river of Khone. Then he came to the icon, prayed and was healed. People of Mutso who heard this escaped the disease to Knone. They were chased by the plague, but they outstripped it to the village and were saved.
That's how people of Mutso survived.
[ Zurab Kiknadze, Andrezebi, ]Ilia State University
Ilia State University ISU ( ka, ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) is a public university in Tbilisi, Georgia that was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institution ...
, Page.138. Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...
, 2009.
See also
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Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Mtskheta-Mtianeti ( ka, მცხეთა-მთიანეთი, literally "Mtskheta-Mountain Area") is a region (Mkhare) in eastern Georgia comprising the town of Mtskheta, which serves as a regional capital, together with its district and th ...
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Mutso
Mutso ( ka, მუცო) is a small village in Georgia (country), Georgia. One of the former strongholds of the historic Georgian province of Khevsureti (now part of Mtskheta-Mtianeti region), it is located on a rocky mountain (1880 m) on the righ ...
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Shetekauri
Notes
Villages in Mtskheta-Mtianeti
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