Yanbirde
Bashkir · mortal · Bashkir traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yanbirde, whose name means 'the giver of soul', is the primordial father who opens the Ural-batyr epic. He and his wife Yanbike dwell alone in a time before nations, subsisting by the hunt and keeping company with tamed beasts. Their two sons, the good Ural and the wayward Shulgen, are the first heroes, and the couple's rule that none may taste blood becomes the moral fault-line of the whole poem. As the earliest human ancestor, Yanbirde stands at the root of the Bashkir mythic genealogy.
Children
Domains
- kinship origins
- hunting
Powers
- sire the first generation of humankind
Relations
- spouse: YanbikeUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
- child: UralUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
- child: ShulgenUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
Sources
- Yanbirde, 'the giver of soul', is the primordial first man of the Ural-batyr epic; with his wife Yanbike he lives before all peoples and fathers Ural and Shulgen.: Ural-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary); Khisamitdinova, F. G. Mifologicheskii slovar' bashkirskogo yazyka. Moscow: Nauka, 2010. (secondary)