ᲞᲝᲡᲢᲙᲝᲚᲝᲜᲘᲣᲠᲘ ᲣᲢᲝᲞᲘᲐᲜᲘᲖᲛᲘ, ᲐᲚᲝᲥᲠᲝᲜᲘᲖᲛᲘ ᲓᲐ ᲜᲐᲪᲘᲝᲜᲐᲚᲣᲠᲘ „ᲛᲝᲛᲐᲕᲚᲘᲡ ᲒᲐᲮᲡᲔᲜᲔᲑᲐ” ᲘᲝᲐᲜᲔ-ᲖᲝᲡᲘᲛᲔᲡ ᲢᲔᲥᲡᲢᲘᲡ – „ᲥᲔᲑᲐᲲ ᲓᲐ ᲓᲘᲓᲔᲑᲐᲘ ᲥᲐᲠᲗᲣᲚᲘᲡᲐ ᲔᲜᲘᲡᲐᲲ“ – ᲛᲘᲮᲔᲓᲕᲘᲗ

This article explores the concept of postcolonial utopianism and allochronism through the analysis of Ioane-Zosime’s 10th-century text „Praise and Exaltation of the Georgian Language.” Drawing on the theories of Ernst Bloch, Bill Ashcroft, and Johannes Fabian, it examines how utopian imagination operates within postcolonial temporalities. It also emphasizes the role of Zosime’s text as a manifestation of messianic-national utopianism, providing a historical example of how utopianism can inspire political action. The study interprets Zosime’s text as a manifestation of messianic-national utopianism that once functioned as an emancipatory response to Byzantine cultural and political hegemony and inspired the political consolidation of medieval Georgia. However, in the modern contemporary secular context, the same eschatological temporality and imagination include risks of producing temporal marginalization by locating national identity in a deferred, mythical, or premodern future.