Sky God
Udmurt · deity · primordial · deity
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)