The Frog-Like Water-Sprite

Authored as the named, attested mother of circassian_pataraz, whose prose already names her (the water-sprite Lady Isp) with parentIds empty. Classed numen (a non-Nart nature-sprite of the waters). WIRE-EDGE: add circassian_isp to circassian_pataraz.parentIds and a mother edge on Isp to Pataraz (parent-to-child completion, reported in the run notes).

Children

• The Avenger Nart

Domains

• water and springs
• craft and invention

Powers

• supplies the design of the first sickle
• bears the avenger Pataraz to Khimish

Relations

• spouse: The Slain Nart FatherReciprocated within this batch on circassian_khimish.John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (2002), How the Nart Khimish Married (Khimish weds Lady Isp the water-sprite). (secondary)

Sources

• Lady Isp (Spe) is a clever frog-like water-sprite of the Mara dwarf forest-people who marries the Nart Khimish and is the mother of the avenger Pataraz; she is remembered for supplying the design of the sickle.: John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucasus (Princeton UP, 2002), How the Nart Khimish Married and How He Was Killed and the Pataraz cycle. (secondary)