Master of the Mountain

Spirit-class master-of-the-mountain (classed as deity). 'Yz' (also yzng) is the Nivkh word for a master-spirit/god of a natural domain; pal = mountain. Documentation rests on Lev Shternberg's foundational Gilyak ethnography.

Children

• Mountain-Person Bear

Domains

• mountains and forest
• game animals

Powers

• sends forest game to the hunters who honor him
• keeps the bears as his mountain people and messengers

Epithets

• Pal Yz

Relations

• companion: Mountain-Person Bear

Sources

• Lev Shternberg, The Social Organization of the Gilyak, ed. Bruce Grant, 1999
• Wikipedia/eHRAF summaries of Nivkh religion drawing on Shternberg, on Pal-yz' and Tol-yz'