Molyz-Yerdy, God of War
Vainakh · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Vainakh war-god, rendered deity per schema. English 'Molyz-Yerdy, God of War' leads; native Молыз-Ерды (Molyz-Yerdy) in term. SOLITARY: no individuated kin, spouse or parentage is attested for the war-god in the sources (Jaimoukha 2005; Tsaroïeva 2005; the Vainakh-religion survey).
Domains
- war and battle
- victory
Powers
- grant the Vainakh victory in war
- patronize and protect the warriors
Sources
- Molyz-Yerdy (Молыз-Ерды) is the Vainakh war-god, 'the war god who brought the Vainakh victory', one of the patron-deities (-yerdy) of the Chechen–Ingush pantheon.: Amjad Jaimoukha, The Chechens: A Handbook (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), religion and mythology chapter (secondary); Mariel Tsaroïeva, Anciennes croyances des Ingouches et des Tchétchènes (Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2005) (secondary); Vainakh religion, Wikipedia (Molyz-Yerdi, war god) (tertiary)