Sky God

Udmurt high sky-god. English 'Sky God' leads; native Инмар (Inmar) in term. Male deities of the aerial sphere (Inmar, Töl-Peri the wind, Kwaz the weather) form the upper tier; Inmar later syncretised with the Christian God.

Domains

• sky and air
• supreme creator
• light and daylight

Powers

• grant the power to create
• Send light, rain and benign weather from on high

Epithets

• Inmar

Relations

• enemy: Keremet, Lord of the Sacred Grove
• equated with: Ilmarinen
• equated with: Jen the Good Creator

Sources

• Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021
• Udmurt Vos, Wikipedia
• Uno Holmberg, Permalaisten uskonto, 1914
• Komi-Zyrian and Votjak Sacred Cosmology (summary of Harva)