Mother of Heavenly Water
Udmurt · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Udmurt heaven-water mother, completing the -mumy cluster (with registered sky-mother udmurt_inmumy and sun-mother udmurt_shundy_mumy, and thunder-mother udmurt_gudyri_mumy authored above). English 'Mother of Heavenly Water' leads; native Инву-мумы (Invu-mumy) in term. Distinct from the chthonic water-man udmurt_vumurt (who owns earthly rivers/lakes): Invu is the celestial water/rain. No kin asserted (see SOLITARY).
Domains
- rain and heavenly water
Powers
- grant or withhold the heavenly water (rain)
Sources
- Invu-mumy / Invozho-mumy ('mother of the heavenly water', in 'sky' + vu 'water' + mumy 'mother') is the Udmurt goddess of rain / heaven-water; the rite of seeking her, invu-utchan, used a special chant (invu-utchan gur).: Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021 (doi:10.7592/Sator.2021.22.05) (secondary); N. Anisimov / E. Toulouze, 'Transition Periods in the Udmurt Ritual Year', Sator 22, 2021 (doi:10.7592/Sator.2021.22.02) (secondary)
- In the midsummer invozho period work in the fields, bathing, and noise near water were forbidden lest Invozho-mumy send thunderstorms with hail to destroy the crops.: N. Anisimov / E. Toulouze, 'Transition Periods in the Udmurt Ritual Year', Sator 22, 2021 (doi:10.7592/Sator.2021.22.02) (secondary)