Surma

TYPE numen AND NOT deity, deliberately: the sources give a shape and a function and no parentage, and numen in this schema is the race-category that is authored rather than computed. This is a dog at a threshold and it is INGESTED WHERE HOUNDS HAVE BEEN REJECTED in lanes 18 and 19 — Bran and Sceolang, the Cwn Annwn — because those were animals identified by a name and an owner, and this one is death itself with a shape.

Domains

• violent death

Relations

• companion: Kalma
• gatekeeper of: Tuoni

Sources

• Reference treatments of Kalma, Surma and Tuonela.