Jen the Good Creator

Komi (Zyrian) high creator; a culture-bringing demiurge classed here as deity. English 'Jen the Good Creator' leads; native Komi Ен (En) in term. The dualistic earth-diver cosmology (good creator vs. adversary, world made from waterfowl eggs) is a pan-Uralic type documented by Holmberg/Harva.

Domains

• sky and light
• creation

Powers

• create the dry land and humankind
• shatter the frozen sea with lightning

Epithets

• Jen
• Ен

Relations

• sibling: Omöl the Adversary
• enemy: Omöl the Adversary
• equated with: Sky God

Sources

• Uno Holmberg (Harva), Permalaisten uskonto, Helsinki, 1914
• Komi mythology, Wikipedia