Among the Khinalug of highland Quba the guzhul is an effigy of sun-summoning weather magic. During prolonged summer rains young people bound together small boards into a female figure, dressed it in women's clothing, and carried it through the village singing an Azerbaijani-language refrain promising that tomorrow the sun would shine, while householders rewarded the procession with eggs and sweets. The rite belongs to the pre-Islamic layer of Khinalug observance that survived alongside Sunni Islam, and parallels the sun- and rain-summoning effigies of the wider Azerbaijani and Shahdagh world. Sources describe the guzhul as a made object rather than a personified deity, though its treatment, being clothed, named, paraded, and propitiated, gives it the character of a temporary weather-being.