Water Master
Veps · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Veps water-master; master-spirit rendered as deity per schema. English 'Water Master' leads; native Veden ižand / Vedehine in term (vezi 'water' + ižand 'master'). Paired with mistress veden emag. Part of Vinokurova's documented 'lower mythology' of Veps master-spirits.
Domains
- water
Powers
- rule the waters and the drowned
Epithets
- Vedenizand The Master of the Water; spirit-lord of lakes and rivers and their fishVeps (Finnic) folk belief (secondary)
Sources
- Veps water-spirits form a 'master' group applied to any body of water: vedehine ('water spirit'), veden ižand ('master of water') and veden emag ('mistress of water'), vedenuk ('old man of water'), and turzas / veziturzas.: atlaskmns.ru, Veps spiritual culture (tertiary); Irina Vinokurova, Mifologiya vepsov, 2015 (secondary)
- Watermen are explained either as beings that arose with all evil at the creation of the world, or as the spirits of the drowned.: 'Mythology and beliefs of the Veps', Arctic Megapedia (tertiary)