The dragon of Andic and wider Daghestani lore, a giant serpent-monster that coils about a spring or river-head and withholds water from a settlement until it is appeased with a yearly victim, usually a maiden; the drought is broken when a hero cuts off its heads and frees the flow, a narrative that fuses the dragon-slaying tale with the region's anxious weather cult. In celestial myth the same beast is the eater of the luminaries: solar and lunar eclipses are its attempts to swallow the sun-sister and moon-brother, which villagers resisted with din and prayer.