Komi-Zyrian forest-master, the chief nature-'owner' of the taiga, rendered here as deity per schema (a class with one master per forest, but a clearly individuated mythic figure). English 'Vörsa the Forest-Master' leads; native Вöрса (Vörsa) in term. SOLITARY: nature-master with no individuated kin, spouse or parentage in the sources (Holmberg 1927; Konakov 2003).
Domains
forests and the hunt
wild animals and game
moral order of the hunt
Powers
lead a hunter astray in the forest
grant or withhold the hunter's catch
change stature between giant and undergrowth
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)
Komi mythology, Wikipedia (drawing on Konakov / Holmberg)