Azraka
Bashkir · numen · Bashkir traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Azraka is the king of the divs, the demonic beings of Bashkir myth, and one of the chief adversaries of Ural. Lord of a fortress-realm and guardian of hoarded waters, he joins with the serpent-kings and with the fallen Shulgen against the hero. In their titanic combat Ural slays him, and the div-king's enormous body sinks to earth and hardens into a mountain that dams the rising flood, one of several episodes in which the epic derives the features of the Ural landscape from the corpses of its monsters.
Domains
- demons
- waters underworld
Powers
- command the host of divs
- fall and form a mountain
Epithets
- Азраҡа дейеү батшаһы — Azraka, king of the divsKhisamitdinova, F. G. Mifologicheskii slovar' bashkirskogo yazyka. Moscow: Nauka, 2010. (secondary)
Relations
- enemy: UralUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
- ally: ShulgenUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
Sources
- Azraka is the padishah of the divs, keeper of the waters and ally of Shulgen; slain by Ural, his fallen body is said to become a mountain.: Ural-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary); Khisamitdinova, F. G. Mifologicheskii slovar' bashkirskogo yazyka. Moscow: Nauka, 2010, s.v. 'Azraqa'. (secondary)