Omöl the Adversary
Komi · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Komi adversary-demiurge; spirit/anti-creator class rendered here as deity per schema. English 'Omöl the Adversary' leads; native Омöль (Omöl) in term. The conflation of Omöl with Kul' (water-and-death lord) varies by source region (Holmberg/Harva).
Domains
- water and the dead
- chaos and evil
Powers
- whistle the sea into ice
- spawn the kul' water-demons
Epithets
- Омӧль the Evil / Bad (adversary-demiurge)U. Holmberg (Harva), The Religion of the Permian Peoples (secondary)
Relations
- ally: Vasa the Water-MasterThe water-master Vasa shares the malevolent water-and-death domain of Omöl/Kul, whose kul' demons haunt the waters.Konakov et al., Komi Mythology (2003); Holmberg, Finno-Ugric Mythology (1927) (secondary)
- sibling: Jen the Good CreatorReciprocal of komi_jen.sibling — In the Komi dualistic cosmogony the demiurge brothers hatch from the eggs of the primeval duck — Jen the good maker and Omöl his spoiler.N. D. Konakov et al., Komi Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 1, 2003) (secondary)
- enemy: Jen the Good CreatorReciprocal of komi_jen.enemy — Every work of Jen is countered by Omöl's marring — the adversary pair that divides the Komi cosmos between good creation and corruption.N. D. Konakov et al., Komi Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 1, 2003) (secondary)
Sources
- Omöl (also identified with Kul') is the malevolent demiurge brother of En, god of water, chaos and the dead, who creates evil water spirits and opposes creation.: Uno Holmberg (Harva), Permalaisten uskonto, Helsinki, 1914 (secondary); Komi mythology, Wikipedia (tertiary)
- The name is glossed 'weakness', paired antithetically with En 'strength'.: Komi mythology, Wikipedia (tertiary)