Water-Man
Udmurt · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Udmurt water-spirit; a 'master'-class spirit rendered here as deity per schema. English 'Water-Man' leads; native Вумурт (Vumurt) in term, literally 'water-man'. Paired with the forest-man Nulesmurt and the field-genius Vorshud in the chthonic tier.
Domains
- water
Powers
- master the rivers and lakes
- Grant or withhold the fish-catch and drown the heedless
Epithets
- Ву-кузё Master of the WaterAado Lintrop, 'On the Udmurt Water Spirit', Folklore (Tartu) (secondary)
Sources
- Vumurt ('water-man', vu 'water' + murt 'man/person') is the Udmurt water-spirit, lord of rivers and lakes; an earthly/chthonic power paralleled by Invu (the waters) in the pantheon.: Uno Holmberg, Permalaisten uskonto, 1914 (secondary); Aado Lintrop, 'The Udmurt Pantheon', Sator 22, 2021 (secondary)