Ilet ne-ya
Kalenjin · numen · mythic · Recorded classification
Ilet ne-ya, 'the evil thunder' of the Nandi — the malevolent of the two thunders, whose near crash is him trying to reach earth to kill people, and whose sword is the forked lightning; he is driven off by his name-sake the good thunder. Authored as a numen, era 'mythic'. Wired as the evil aspect of Ilet (kalenjin_ilet, 'aspect of'; reciprocated by 'aspect') and as the sibling/name-sake counterpart of Ilet ne-mie (reciprocated). inheritability 'none' throughout.
Domains
- thunder
- lightning
- death
Powers
- Strikes down people by coming to earth as the near thunder
- Wields the forked lightning as his sword
Epithets
- Ilet ne-ya — 'the evil/bad thunder'The malevolent of the two Nandi thunders.A. C. Hollis, The Nandi: Their Language and Folk-lore (1909) (primary)
Relations
- sibling: Ilet ne-mieHis name-sake and counterpart, the good thunder; the two are framed as 'two separate deities' (good vs bad thunder) and as namesakes, the good driving off the bad.A. C. Hollis, The Nandi: Their Language and Folk-lore (1909) — Ilet ne-mie drives away his name-sake Ilet ne-ya (primary)
- aspect of: IletThe evil aspect of the overarching thunder being Ilet.A. C. Hollis, The Nandi: Their Language and Folk-lore (1909) — the dual nature of Ilat split into Ilet ne-mie and Ilet ne-ya (primary)