Surma
Finnish · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
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: KalmaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Kalma is accompanied and protected by Surma. (secondary)
- gatekeeper of: TuoniNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Surma guides the departed to their resting place in Tuonela, the realm over which Tuoni presides. (secondary)
Sources
- Surma is the dog-shaped being of the Finnish underworld who attends Kalma and takes the dead into Tuonela.: Reference treatments of Kalma, Surma and Tuonela. (secondary)