Abaasy
Yakut · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Malevolent iron-toothed demons of the Sakha lower world.
Domains
- underworld
- disease
Powers
- Devour souls and inflict sickness on the living
- Abduct maidens and battle the Aiyy heroes
- moves by a lurching hop-and-drag, being a one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged half-being
- bears poisonous blood and iron teeth that contaminate whatever they touch
Relations
- enemy: Ürüng Aiyy ToyonReciprocal of yakut_uruung_aiyy_toyon.enemy — The benevolent aiyy of the upper world under the White Creator Lord stand in perpetual opposition to the iron-toothed abaasy of the lower world.W. Jochelson, The Yakut (AMNH Anthropological Papers 33, 1933) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Olonkho 'Nurgun Bootur the Swift' (primary)