Töör (spirit-master of the earth)
Even · deity · Even traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Töör (Even Тоор, also Төөр; in full töör muranni / töör mö(h)ynni, 'master of the earth') is the spirit-master of the earth in Even religion. He is one of the spirit-masters (muranni) of the middle world — the abode of the living — alongside the master of the water (Mu) and the master of fire (Tog). The spirit-masters of the natural domains, mediated by the shaman, are the working core of Even religious life: the earth-master is glorified and beseeched in the blessing-incantations (the verb hirgéchén denoting this act of honouring and petition), and appeals to the Earth, together with the Sun and Moon, open the hunting and herding rites recorded by Lebedev and Tsintsius.
Domains
- master of the earth
- spirit masters of the middle world
Powers
- to own the ground of the middle world and its fruitfulness
- to be glorified and beseeched in the blessing-incantation
Epithets
- Тоор муранни — дух-хозяин земли'Dukhovnyi mir evenskogo naroda', Polyarnaya zvezda, 2015 (the 'spirit-master of the earth') (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: Mu (spirit-master of the water)Töör, master of the earth, and Mu, master of the water, are the paired spirit-masters of the middle world, named together with the master of fire.'Dukhovnyi mir evenskogo naroda', Polyarnaya zvezda, 2015 — the spirit-masters of earth (töör muranni) and water (mö muranni) of the middle world (secondary)
Sources
- Töör (töör muranni) is the Even spirit-master of the earth, one of the spirit-masters of the middle world honoured and petitioned in Even blessing-incantations.: 'Dukhovnyi mir evenskogo naroda', Polyarnaya zvezda, 2015 (secondary); V. D. Lebedev & V. I. Tsintsius, 'K voprosu ob evenskikh zaklinaniyakh-blagopozhelaniyakh' (secondary)