Proverbs belong to a small folklore (also literary) genre, which use laconic oral expressions. Proverbs describing the reality in a figurative manner reflect the perception of any language and the nation. There are many proverbs in Georgian folklore. They are thematically diverse and are the treasury of pearls of folklore. Originally the figurative expression of thought was immensely powerful as the means of imagery thought. We have unique collection of oral heritage that has survived from Sumerians, Akkadians, Hittites, Semites, Greeks, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Scandinavians, Slavs and other people, which was enriched by collective knowledge and itself was reflected upon the new forms of arts. Among those, the most famous and widespread is the proverb. In 1993, Galli-Hassan Rokem published a collection of Georgian proverbs in Jerusalem. The first proverb of this collection is “A front man is a bridge to the next one”. According to the researcher, the idea of “man is a bridge to man” is expressed in it, and in his opinion it is a meta-proverb. This proverb is really unique, which reflects and presents the main vectors of human solidarity and mutual understanding habitual to the several thousand-year-old historical reality of the Georgian people. In the consciousness of Georgian people, the concrete reality, in particular, the bridge between the two banks of the river is not only directly perceived, but at the same time this real situation is understood in a figurative sense, which is revealed in the contexts of linguistic, historical and literary parallels. Accordingly, the proverbs-aphorisms of the famous poem “The Knight in the Panter’s Skin” by the well-known poet of the Renaissance period Shota Rustaveli are especially special.
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