Ortzi

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

Sources

• Aymeric Picaud, Codex Calixtinus, Book V (c. 1140)
• J. M. Barandiarán, Mitología vasca; lexical survivals (ostegun, ortzadar)