Vasa the Water-Master
Komi · deity · primordial · deity
Komi-Zyrian water-master, the chief nature-'owner' of the rivers and lakes, rendered here as deity per schema. English 'Vasa the Water-Master' leads; native Васа (Vasa) in term, Permian Vais'. Wired as ally of komi_omol because the water-master shares the malevolent water-and-death domain of Omöl/Kul' (the kul' water-demons are Omöl's spawn).
Domains
- water and rivers
- fishing and the catch
- drowning and the watery dead
- mills and watercraft
Powers
- draw people and animals down to drown
- grant or withhold the fish-catch
- break the dams of a mill
- appear as fish-tailed man, a great pike, or a fair woman
Relations
- ally: Omöl the Adversary
Sources
- Uno Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric [and] Siberian Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, Vol. IV, 1927), Permian section
- N. D. Konakov et al., Komi Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies I, 2003)
- Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric [and] Siberian Mythology (1927), Permian section
- Komi mythology, Wikipedia