Spirit-class cosmic animal (classed as deity, a personified celestial being). Sex given as female because the chased elk (kheglun, the cow-elk) is typically the dam pursued with her calf in the cosmic-hunt versions; the hunter is the bear Mangi. The elk is the central Evenki sky-image: constellation, sun-bearer, and quarry of the primordial hunt.
Domains
sun and day
heavens constellation
Powers
carries the sun away on her antlers each night
wheels across the night sky as the four stars of the Great Bear