House Master
Veps · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Veps house-spirit (the prompt's house-spirit); master-class spirit rendered as deity per schema. English 'House Master' leads; native Pertin ižand in term (pert' 'house' + ižand 'master'). Completes the Veps master-spirit triad (forest / water / house), all from Vinokurova's encyclopedia of Veps mythology.
Domains
- household and hearth
Powers
- guard the house and its luck
Sources
- The Veps recognise a house-master spirit (pertin ižand, 'master of the house', pert' 'house/izba') with a mistress (pertin emag), part of the system of izand/emag master-spirits governing every domestic and natural space.: Irina Vinokurova, Mifologiya vepsov: entsiklopediya, Petrozavodsk, 2015 (secondary); atlaskmns.ru, Veps spiritual culture (tertiary)
- Agricultural Veps also venerated a field-master (poudižand) and field-mistress (poudemag), each space having its master couple.: 'Mythology and beliefs of the Veps', Arctic Megapedia (tertiary)