Sky (Nom)

The Selkup sky-god, cognate with Nenets/Samoyed Num; classed 'deity'. English 'Sky' leads, native Nom in term. Documented in the Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies (Tuchkova et al.) and earlier by Prokofyeva and Pelikh.

Children

• Icha

Domains

• sky and creation
• weather and sustenance
• sky

Powers

• personify the sky and provide weather and food
• personifies the sky and dispenses weather, game and food

Epithets

• Nom

Relations

• equated with: Sky (Num)
• equated with: Sky Father
• equated with: Upper Sky Father
• enemy: Underworld Lord (Kyzy)

Sources

• Tuchkova, N.A., Kuznetsova, A.I., Kazakevich, O.A. et al. (2010). Selkup Mythology. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4).
• Prokofyeva, E.D. — Selkup religion (mid-20th c. ethnography).
• atlaskmns.ru 'Selkups. Spiritual culture'.