Spirits (Loz)
Selkup · deity · mythic / perennial · Recorded classification
Spirit-class collective (the loz), authored per the brief; classed 'deity' as the schema bars new types — loz are a category of spirits, malevolent or benevolent, not one named god. English 'Spirits' leads, native loz in term.
Domains
- spirits of the three worlds
Powers
- inhabit and act from the upper and lower worlds
Relations
- ally: Underworld Lord (Kyzy)Reciprocal of selkup_kyzy.ally — The loz spirit-host serves under the command of the underworld lord.N. Tuchkova et al., Selkup Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4, 2010) (secondary)
Sources
- Loz (pl. lozy) is the Selkup term for the supernatural beings/spirits inhabiting the worlds beyond the human earth; the cosmos is a vertical stack of upper, middle and lower worlds joined by a sacred birch or larch.: atlaskmns.ru, 'Selkups. Spiritual culture' — loz spirits and the three-tier universe. (tertiary); Tuchkova, N.A. et al. (2010). Selkup Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4). (ethnography)