The Budalaal (variant Mudalaal) are the patron divinities of the mountains and of the chase among the Avar–Andi–Tsez highlanders, to whom the Dido and their Tsezic kin belong. Conceived as a collective of divine beings rather than a single figure, they own and shepherd the wild herds of the high country, and it is they who grant or withhold a hunter's quarry. Their name recurs across the neighbouring Avar and Andic communities, marking a shared stratum of hunting religion in which the game of the peaks is the property of unseen mountain lords whose goodwill must be secured.