Master of the Sea
Nivkh · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
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
- Tol-yz' is the Nivkh master-spirit (yz) of the sea, supplier of fish and sea-mammals, counterpart of the mountain-master Pal-yz'.: Lev Shternberg, The Social Organization of the Gilyak, ed. Bruce Grant, 1999 (secondary); Wikipedia/eHRAF summaries of Nivkh religion drawing on Shternberg (secondary)