Thunder
Estonian · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Estonian thunder-god. English 'Thunder' leads; native Pikker/Äike in term. Pikker/Pikne is the older folk word for thunder (cf. lightning); Kõu and Pikker are paired as the sky-father's sons in romantic-era systematisation. parentIds links to Uku.
Parentage
- parent: Sky Father
Domains
- thunder and lightning
Powers
- rout the demons with thunder-music
Epithets
- Pikne / Pikker 'the Long/Tall one', thunder personified; also invoked Vana Pikker 'Old Thunder'F. R. Kreutzwald, Eesti rahva ennemuistsed jutud (1866); Loorits, Grundzüge des estnischen Volksglaubens (secondary)
Sources
- Pikker (also Pikne, and as the storm itself Äike; the personified thunder Kõu) is the Estonian thunder-and-lightning deity, son of the sky-father.: Estonian mythology, Wikipedia (tertiary)