World-Surveyor Man
Mansi · demigod · mythic age · demigod
Culture-hero / divine-rider tier (classed as demigod: a divine son and mediator-hero). Mansi Mir-susne-xum; Khanty Mĭr Šawijti Xu ('World-Surveying Man'). The pre-eminent Ob-Ugric cultural ancestor and intercessor; documentation chiefly from Munkácsi's Vogul (Mansi) folklore corpus and Karjalainen.
Parentage
Domains
- watching over the world
- intercession
- fertility and fortune
Powers
- rides the daily circuit of the world to oversee mankind
- bears the sky-father's messages between the worlds
- changes into a goose or crane to travel the sky
Epithets
- Mir-susne-khum
Relations
- sibling: Old Man of the Ob
- sibling: Pelym God
- equated with: World-Watching Man
- sibling: World-Watching Man
- sibling: Golden Old Man
- sibling: Lower Sky Lord