Tutyr
Ossetian · deity · cosmogonic · deity
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
Sources
- 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.