Inmara is the supreme deity in Udmurt mythology (or its epithet), the creator god. After Christianization - the name of God the Father . Inmar - demiurge , the creator of all good, he is opposed to Keremet ( Lud , Shaitan ). Related Finnish Ilmarinen , Mari Yinu ( inversion ) and Komi Yenu . Inmara pray for good weather and harvest. Along with Inmar, Kyldysin, Kuaz and Inu are the supreme deities in the traditional beliefs of the Udmurts .
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Myths
During the creation of the world, Keremet (Lud, Shaitan, Vukuzo), at the behest of Inmar, dived into the World Ocean and took the earth from the bottom, bringing it in his mouth. Part of the land Keremet concealed, but when the earth, at the behest of Inmar, began to grow, he was forced to spit it out - so mountains appeared on level ground. [one]
First, Inmar created the giants ( alangasars ), and only then people appeared, and the giants disappeared. With the spread of Christianity, the image of Inmar merges with the image of God the Father, respectively, and the mythology is experiencing the strongest Christian influence.
Name etymology
In the XIX century, the most common etymology was in + mar "heaven-what." I. N. Smirnov proposed to consider Inmar as spoiled by the Inmurt "heavenly man" [2] . According to M. G. Atamanov , the word Inmar arose from the merger of Udm. in (m) "sky" and ar "man" (from Bulgarian ) [3] . At present, the most acceptable is the hypothesis of B. A. Serebrennikov [4] , supported by V. S. Churakov [5] : the word Inmar preserves the ancient suffix - * r , and the word itself comes from the Finno-Permian name of the heavenly deity (* ilmar , Wed Ilmarinen ).
Notes
- ↑ Creation of giants and people (Udmurts)
- ↑ Smirnov I. N. Votyaki. Kazan, 1890. p. 206.
- ↑ Atamanov, MG, The Origin of the Inon 'God' Theonim in the Udmurt Language // G.Ye. Vereshchagin and the Ethnocultural Development of the Peoples of the Ural-Volga Region. Izhevsk, 2004. p. 179.
- ↑ Serebrennikov B. A. Historical morphology of the Permian languages. Moscow, 1963. p. 144.
- ↑ Churakov V.S. Reflections on the “Votskaya Faith” (to the problem of the Udmurt Olympus) // Materials of the interregional scientific-practical conference “Material and spiritual culture of the peoples of the Urals and Volga region: History and modernity”. Glazov, 2005. p. 83-84.
See also
- Ilmarinen
- Finno-Ugric mythology
Links
- Inmar // Mythological Dictionary / Ch. ed. E.M. Meletinsky . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - 672 p.
- Churakov V.S. Reflections on the “Votsky Faith” (on the problem of the Udmurt Olympus)