Radien-attje

Sámi creator and high god, the remote ruler of the cosmos upheld via the world-pillar; regarded as passive and rarely petitioned. Secondary attestation.

Children

• Radien-pardne
• Rana Niejta

Domains

• creation supreme

Powers

• Uphold the cosmos through the world-pillar

Epithets

• Waralden Olmai Sami · Veralden-olmai · cultMan of the World (the world-upholder)Holmberg (Harva), Lapland sacrifices; Friis, Lappisk Mythologi (secondary)
• Radien-attje Sami · Radien-attje · cultRuler-FatherFriis, Lappisk Mythologi (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: Radien-akkaReciprocal of sami_radien_akka.spouse (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• syncretism: FreyrRadien's by-name Veralden-olmai 'world man' is widely taken as loaning ON veraldar goð, Freyr's epithet; Scandinavian world-pillar/fertility material fused onto the Sámi high god. Epithet-level; contested in detail.R. Simek, Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993), s.v. 'veraldar goð' (secondary); H. Mebius, Bissie: Studier i samisk religionshistoria (2003) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: J. A. Friis, Lappisk Mythologi (1871); Sámi creator-deity records (secondary); Title 'father-ruler' (rádie 'rule' + áhttje 'father') (secondary)