Earth and Fertility God
Udmurt · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Udmurt earth-and-fertility god; the prompt's 'Mu-Kylchin' is the earth-aspect compound (mu 'earth'). English lead, native Кылдысин (Kyldysin) in term. Holmberg's informant ranked him below Inmar ('Inmar is a god, Kylchin is a saint').
Domains
- earth and fertility
- childbirth and children
Powers
- create and multiply living things
- live among humankind as teacher
- Enrich the soil and grant the harvest
Sources
- Kyldysin (Mu-Kylchin) is the Udmurt earth/chthonic god of fertility and procreation, derived from the word for 'creator'.: Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021 (secondary); Udmurt Vos, Wikipedia (tertiary)
- He is depicted as a tall, stout old man with white hair and a white beard, always dressed in white, sometimes appearing to blend into the sky.: Uno Holmberg, Permalaisten uskonto, 1914 (secondary)