Pülĕh, the apportioner of fate and fortune

Chuvash · deity · Chuvash traditional religion; continuing · deity

Pülĕh, also recorded in the agent form Pülĕhçĕ, is the Chuvash power who measures out fate. His name derives from the verb pül- 'to divide, apportion', and in prayer he is called upon as the one who hands each person a portion of fortune — a happy lot or an unhappy one — and who is described as a keeper and a seer of what is to come. He belongs to the celestial tier of the pantheon, acting as a minister of the supreme god Tură, and his office overlaps with that of the fate-goddess Kepe, with whom he is grouped among the dispensers of human destiny. Pülĕh is one of the figures whose role illustrates the Chuvash conception of a single sovereign sky-god surrounded by specialised attendant powers.

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