Rak'ul ebel

Ракьул эбел, the Mother of the Earth, is one of a quartet of personified feminine powers preserved in Avar oral tradition alongside the Mothers of water, wind and disease. Scholars read the four as differentiations of a single primordial mother-creator whose unity fractured into distinct elemental patronesses. As Mother of the Earth she embodies the fertile highland soil and the yield of field and pasture, the maternal ground answering to the sky-father's rain and thunder. Her image, like those of her sisters, largely faded under Islam yet left clear traces in blessing-formulae and agrarian belief.

Domains

• earth fertility

Powers

• bears the fruits of the soil

Relations

• sibling: Ladal ebelOne of the four personified Mothers held to descend from a single mother-creator.Халидова М.Р. Мифологические образы в устной прозе народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1984. (secondary)
• sibling: Gorol ebelOne of the four personified Mothers held to descend from a single mother-creator.Халидова М.Р. Мифологические образы в устной прозе народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1984. (secondary)
• sibling: Untul ebelOne of the four personified Mothers held to descend from a single mother-creator.Халидова М.Р. Мифологические образы в устной прозе народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1984. (secondary)

Sources

• Ракьул эбел (Mother of Earth) is one of four personified 'Mother' figures preserved in Avar oral tradition, understood as differentiations of an original mother-creator goddess.: Халидова М.Р. Мифологические образы в устной прозе народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1984. (secondary); Сефербеков Р.И. «Мифологические персонажи традиционных верований аварцев-каратинцев», Вестник Института ИАЭ. (secondary)