Tutyr
Ossetian · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
THE WOLF-LORD IS ALSO THE WOLF'S RESTRAINT: the same god who owns the wolves is the one a herdsman calls on to make them let go. The corpus held the Karachay-Balkar Totur and not him.
Domains
- wolves
- mastery over predators
- restraint of the wolf from the flock
Relations
- enemy: FælværaReciprocated within this batch; see the note on ossetian_faelvaera.Reference treatment of Fælværa and Tutyr: Fælværa was the protector of sheep, possibly named after Florus and Laurus, and his festival was celebrated before sheep-shearing in September; he has only one eye, and he is often the enemy of Tutyr, who struck out Fælværa's left eye so that wolves could come at the flocks from the blind side, where the shepherd-god could not see them; Tutyr is the lord of the wolves and master of all wolves, identified with Saint Theodore of Tyre; the Ossetians believed that wolves could not attack livestock without Tutyr's will, and that calling on Tutyr at the time when wolves attack livestock would make the wolves run away. (secondary)
- cross tradition counterpart of: ToturNon-symmetric, written from this end only; karachay_balkar_totur is a pre-existing record. FOUND BY THE SWEEP: the Karachay-Balkar form was already held and the Ossetian one was not.Reference treatment of Fælværa and Tutyr: Fælværa was the protector of sheep, possibly named after Florus and Laurus, and his festival was celebrated before sheep-shearing in September; he has only one eye, and he is often the enemy of Tutyr, who struck out Fælværa's left eye so that wolves could come at the flocks from the blind side, where the shepherd-god could not see them; Tutyr is the lord of the wolves and master of all wolves, identified with Saint Theodore of Tyre; the Ossetians believed that wolves could not attack livestock without Tutyr's will, and that calling on Tutyr at the time when wolves attack livestock would make the wolves run away. (secondary)
Sources
- The lord of the wolves and master of all wolves, identified with Saint Theodore of Tyre: wolves could not attack livestock without his will, and calling on him during an attack would make them run off.: Reference treatment of Fælværa and Tutyr: Fælværa was the protector of sheep, possibly named after Florus and Laurus, and his festival was celebrated before sheep-shearing in September; he has only one eye, and he is often the enemy of Tutyr, who struck out Fælværa's left eye so that wolves could come at the flocks from the blind side, where the shepherd-god could not see them; Tutyr is the lord of the wolves and master of all wolves, identified with Saint Theodore of Tyre; the Ossetians believed that wolves could not attack livestock without Tutyr's will, and that calling on Tutyr at the time when wolves attack livestock would make the wolves run away. (secondary)