A tower by the name of 'What to Do?'

A tower by the name of 'What to Do?'

Short-short story by Mikho Mosulishvili

Translated from Georgian into English by Manana Matiashvili

What is the core of philosophy of Georgian highlanders who live in the mountains of Caucasus range?

Best of all it is expressed in local folklore.

In one folk poem it is told that local people constructed a tower by the name of 'What to Do?' and they called Its door 'Grieves for life'. And when the guests came from the other world they went around the tower for a long time but couldn't find a door. At last they assumed: 'Time will come and the door will open itself.'

As it seems to me from this poem not only Georgian Highlanders but all of the humans are like these towers – when our doors open the guests from the other world will come and take us. This is all. This is a life of a human being.

P. S. The source poem for my short-short story was written down in 1956 in the village Chargali of Pshavi region by specialists in folklore Jondo Bardavelidze and Guram Barnov. The poem was told by Ivane Gorzamauli who was 76 years old then and said that he sang this poem when his son died...

2017

ミホ?モスリシヴィリ 

「どうしよう」の城

（短編）

グルジアの山の人々の、コーカサス山脈の南麓の、哲学的本質とは一体何か？ このことが一番よく表れているのは、彼の地の言い伝えだ。ある詩の中で言われていることには、その土地の人々は、「報い」が扉として取り付けられた、「どうしよう」の城を造ったという。この城を見に、あの世からたくさんの者が来て周りをうろつくも、ついに扉を見つけることができなかった。彼らの言うことには、「時が来れば扉は自ずと開かれよう」と。私が思うのは、この詩において、グルジアの山の人々だけでなく、地球上に住むすべての人がこの城に似ている、ということだ――私たちはこの城であり、扉がもし開かれれば、その時はあの世の者たちが私たちを連れ去っていく。これが人生というものだ。

P.S. ここで言及されている詩は、1956年、プシャヴィ?チャルガリ村にて、ジョンド?バルダヴェリゼとグラム?バルノヴィが76歳のイヴァネ?ゴルザマウリから記録したものである。彼曰く、この詩は最初に彼の子の葬儀で歌ったという…

2017

(Translated from Georgian into Japanese by Hayate Sotome, original text and photos by Mikho Mosulishvili)

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