Living Old Woman (Ilyntyl Kota)
Selkup · deity · mythic / cosmic · Recorded classification
Selkup life-mother / supreme old-woman deity; classed 'deity'. English 'Living Old Woman' leads, native Ilyntyl Kota in term. Bridges to the Icha cycle as the hero's grandmother.
Domains
- life birth and fate
- ancestral grandmother of the hero
Powers
- give and keep human life
Sources
- The Living Old Woman, Ilyntyl Kota, is a Selkup life- and birth-goddess; among the northern Selkup she preceded Nom as supreme deity and is the grandmother who raises the orphan hero Icha.: Tuchkova, N.A. et al. (2010). Selkup Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4). (ethnography); atlaskmns.ru, 'Selkups. Spiritual culture' — Ilyntyl Kota, grandmother of Icha. (tertiary)