Sky (Nom)
Selkup · deity · mythic / cosmic · Recorded classification
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
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 The sky and supreme being; the benevolent celestial god of the SelkupSelkup (Samoyedic) ethnography (secondary)
Relations
- equated with: Sky (Num)Samoyedic cognate reflexes of the same sky-god lexeme: Nenets Num = Selkup Nom 'sky/highest god'."Num," Encyclopedia of Religion (citing Uno Holmberg, Mythology of All Races vol. 4, 1927) (secondary)
- equated with: Sky FatherOb-Ugric Num-Torum and Samoyedic Selkup Nom continue Uralic *num 'sky/high'."Num," Encyclopedia of Religion (citing Uno Holmberg, Mythology of All Races vol. 4, 1927) (secondary)
- equated with: Upper Sky FatherMansi Numi- and Selkup Nom are cognate reflexes of Uralic *num 'sky'."Num," Encyclopedia of Religion (citing Uno Holmberg, Mythology of All Races vol. 4, 1927) (secondary)
- enemy: Underworld Lord (Kyzy)Reciprocal of selkup_kyzy.enemy — The Selkup cosmic dualism: the underworld lord opposes the sky god Nom and drags souls down into the lower world.N. Tuchkova et al., Selkup Mythology (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4, 2010) (secondary)
Sources
- Among the Selkup, Nom (Nop, = Samoyed Num) is the supreme heavenly deity and creator, the abstract 'good beginning' who personifies the sky, makes the weather and gives food; he is remote and not addressed in prayer.: Tuchkova, N.A., Kuznetsova, A.I., Kazakevich, O.A. et al. (2010). Selkup Mythology. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4). (ethnography); Prokofyeva, E.D. — Selkup religion (mid-20th c. ethnography). (ethnography)
- In Selkup belief the Living Old Woman (Ilyntyl Kota) preceded Nom as supreme deity, and in a later tradition the hero Icha is the son of Nom.: atlaskmns.ru 'Selkups. Spiritual culture'. (tertiary)