God of Life and Souls
Circassian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Name = psa 'soul/life' + tha 'god'. Classed as a cosmogonic deity of the 'gods without image' group. No material cult-image is attested (imageless by definition); no kin attested — see SOLITARY flag.
Domains
- soul and life force
- the dead and the ancestors
Powers
- grants the breath-soul (psa) of the living and keeps the souls of the dead
- grants the breath-soul (psa) and keeps the souls of the dead in the world beyond
Sources
- Psathha (Psetha/Pseta) is the Circassian (Adyghe) god of life and souls — a cosmogonic 'god without image' governing the soul/life-force (psa) of the living and the souls of the ancestral dead.: Standard survey of Circassian paganism / Religion in Circassia (Psetha among the imageless cosmogonic gods; god of life and souls). (secondary); Amjad Jaimoukha, The Circassians: A Handbook (Curzon, 2001) (Adyghe belief in the soul psa and the immortality of the soul). (secondary)