Moon-God of the Mari
Mari · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Meadow Mari ⟨Тылзе⟩ Tõlze (tylze 'moon, month'); fuller Tõlze Jumo. A solitary celestial power tied to Kugu Jumo as a manifestation; his marriage/birth guardianship complements the birth-mother Shochyn-Ava and the moon-god Tõlze appears in the standard lists of Mari deities.
Domains
- moon and night
- marriage and birth
Powers
- bears the moon through the night sky and marks the months
- watches over marriages and the safe bearing of children
Epithets
- Тылзе Юмо Moon GodMari religion, Wikipedia (list of Mari deities) (secondary)
Relations
- manifestation of: Great Sky-God of the MariHierarchical hypostasis tie to Kugu Jumo, not a kin relation.Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology, 1927; the moon-god is a hypostasis of the supreme sky-god in henotheistic Mari religion. (secondary)
Sources
- Tõlze (Tylze) is the Mari god of the moon and the protector of marriage and birth, a night-sky deity counted among the principal gods and a hypostasis of the supreme sky-god.: Holmberg, Uno (Harva). Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, Vol. IV). Marshall Jones, 1927, Cheremis sections. (secondary); Toidybekova, L. S. Mari Mythology: Encyclopedic Reference. Yoshkar-Ola, 2007 (Tõlze). (secondary)