Ghalghai
[17] In the first century AD, the ancient Greek geographer Strabo mentioned the Gelae and Legae tribes in his work Geographica.
According to him, the Amazons lived on their borders:[18] But others, among whom are Metrodorus of Scepsis and Hypsicrates, who themselves, likewise, were not unacquainted with the region in question, say that the Amazons live on the borders of the Gargarians (...)"The Gargareans like Gelae, were also connected to the ethnonym ghalghai by a number of scholars like Vasily Latyshev [ru],[21] Evgeny Krupnov,[22] Gamrekeli,[23] Adrienne Mayor.
[24] The Chechen linguist, dr. of philological sciences Katy Chokaev connected ghalghai with the name of the God of Sun/Sky Gal (ГӀал, Ghal) of the Vainakh religion.
[25][16] The cult of Gal was found in Ingushetia, and according to the Ossetian scholar, professor Boris Alborov [ru], originated in Assa Gorge.
[26] Alborov noted that, linguistically, with the rise of the initial consonant, Gal could have formed from older Ingush terms Hal(a) and Al(a), both signifying "god" in ancient times.
[27] The Nakh legends recorded in the 19th century are often interpreted by researchers in a historical context, however, such use requires special source study methods and does not allow establishing an exact chronology to describe any events from the life of the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush.
[29] Legends recorded by the Dargin ethnographer Bashir Dalgat [ru] in mountainous villages (auls) of Erzi and Falkhan mention how once upon a time there lived three brothers, Ga, Orshtkho/Arshtkho and Nakhcho, from whom the Galgai (Ingush), Orstkhoi and Nokhchi (Chechens) descended.
[30] In Chechen legends about the origin of the Vainakhs, other combinations of the brothers' names were also found, for example, Ako/Akho and Shoto (eponyms for the Akkins and Shatois) could be added.
[31] In Georgian sources, in the form of Gligvi, it is mentioned as an ethnonym that existed during the reign of Mirian I,[32] as well as the ruler of Kakheti Kvirike III.
