Pülĕh, the apportioner of fate and fortune

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.

Domains

• fate and fortune
• luck and prosperity

Powers

• to apportion to each person a happy or unhappy lot in life
• to foresee and announce the course of a person's destiny

Relations

• subordinate to: Tură, the supreme heaven-god and creatorPülĕh apportions fortune as a minister of the supreme god, executing under Tură's authority the allotment of each human lot.Salmin, Anton K. Sistema religii chuvashey [The System of the Chuvash Folk Religion]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2007. (secondary)
• ally: Kepe, goddess of fate and consort of TurăPülĕh and the fate-goddess Kepe share the office of allotting human destiny and are described as acting together among the heavenly powers of fortune.Salmin, Anton. Savirs – Bulgars – Chuvash. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015. (secondary)

Sources

• Pülĕh (Pülĕhçĕ) is the Chuvash heavenly apportioner of fate and fortune, who assigns each person a happy or unhappy lot under the authority of the supreme god Tură.: Mészáros, Gyula. A csuvas ősvallás emlékei [Monuments of the Ancient Chuvash Religion]. Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1909. (secondary); Salmin, Anton K. Sistema religii chuvashey [The System of the Chuvash Folk Religion]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2007. (secondary)