Leib-olmai
Sámi · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Sámi forest- and hunting-god ('alder-man'), master of wild game and especially the bear; hunters made daily offerings for his favour. Secondary attestation.
Domains
- the hunt
Powers
- Grant luck in the hunt and govern the bear
- Appears to hunters in the shape of a bear and grants or withholds the hunt
Sources
- existence: Sámi ethnography of the hunt and the bear-cult (Friis 1871; bear-feast accounts) (secondary); Name 'alder-man' (leaibi 'alder'), alder-bark used in bear ritual (secondary)