Madder-attje
Sámi · deity · mythic · deity
Sami ancestral father-god, consort of the origin-mother Maderakka (sami_mattarahkka). The pair Madder-akka and Madder-attje are the ancestress and ancestor (mattar meaning root or ancestor, with akka meaning mother and attje meaning father). He appears on some drums but with a much smaller role than his wife and is held to be a later addition; he is named in the registry as the male counterpart of Maderakka. Wired here only as her spouse, not as father of the three Akka daughters, whose paternity the sources do not make explicit.
Domains
- ancestral fatherhood
Powers
- Stands as the ancestral father, male counterpart of the origin-mother
Relations
- spouse: Máttaráhkká
Sources
- U. Holmberg (Harva), Finno-Ugric Mythology (The Mythology of All Races IV), 1927
- J. A. Friis, Lappisk Mythologi (1871); Sami drum surveys (Manker)
- Sami drum iconography: Maderakka given the husband Madder-attje (Mattarahttje)