Editing Tlepsh (section)

'''Tlepsh''' ([[Adyghe language|Adyghe]] Лъэпш {{IPA|ady|ɬapʃ|}}) is a mythological figure who appears (as a [[blacksmith]] and also a powerful leader) in some cycles of the [[Nart saga]]s of the [[Caucasus]], in which his Ossetian counterpart is the smith [[Kurdalægon]]. Tlepsh's name is a borrowing from [[Indo-European languages]] into [[Circassian languages|Circassian]], cognate with Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups) borrowed into [[Latin]] as ''chalybs'' - '[[iron]]' - Tlepsh is thus the embodiment of the metal with which he works.<ref>{{citation| last = Bonnefoy | first =  Yves | title = Asian Mythologies | work = Mythologies |orig-year = 1981 | year = 1992 | editor-first =Wendy | editor-last = Doniger | editor-link = Wendy Doniger | publisher =  University of Chicago Press 1991 |page =340 }}, an edited translation based on ''Dictionnaire des mythologies et des religions des sociétés traditionelles et du monde antique''</ref>