Ortzi
Basque · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Basque sky/thunder god whose name survives in weekday and weather words; sole explicit witness is Picaud's 12th-c. gloss 'they call God Urcia'. No narrative myths survive (flagged honestly).
Domains
- sky thunder
Powers
- Lend his name to sky, thunder and the storm
Epithets
- Ortzi The sky and thunder; the very word for the firmament and the weather of the heavensBasque etymology of sky/weather terms; Barandiarán (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Aymeric Picaud, Codex Calixtinus, Book V (c. 1140) (primary); J. M. Barandiarán, Mitología vasca; lexical survivals (ostegun, ortzadar) (secondary)