Thunder-Mother
Udmurt · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Udmurt thunder-mother. English 'Thunder-Mother' leads; native Гудыри-мумы (Gudyri-mumy) in term. Third of the chief -mumy triad with the registered udmurt_inmumy (sky-mother) and udmurt_shundy_mumy (sun-mother); no kinship is asserted among the mother-goddesses in the sources (see SOLITARY).
Domains
- thunder and storm
Powers
- send thunder and storm
Sources
- Gudyri-mumy ('thunder-mother', gudyri 'thunder' + mumy 'mother') is one of the chief female deities of the Udmurt pantheon — goddess of thunder and storm — grouped with In-mumy (sky-mother) and Shundy-mumy (sun-mother).: Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021 (doi:10.7592/Sator.2021.22.05) (secondary); Udmurt Vos, Wikipedia (tertiary)
- Female 'mother' (-mumy) deities are more prominent in the Udmurt aerial pantheon than in the related Mari tradition.: Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021 (secondary)