Master of the Sea

Spirit-class master-of-the-sea (classed as deity). Forms with Pal-yz' the basic land/sea pair of the Nivkh animist cosmology recorded by Shternberg.

Domains

• sea and water
• fish and sea game

Powers

• sends fish and sea-mammals to the Nivkh
• keeps an undersea household to which sea-creatures return

Sources

• Lev Shternberg, The Social Organization of the Gilyak, ed. Bruce Grant, 1999
• Wikipedia/eHRAF summaries of Nivkh religion drawing on Shternberg