Jelping-Ja-Oyka was an antagonist of the hero

Mir-Susne-Hum Mir-Susne-Hum (Mir-Setivi-Ho, Kan-iki or Otr-iki ) is a culture hero of the Samoyedic and Ugrian peoples. He was the seventh son of Num-Torum, the supreme god of the Ugrian people, and acted as a mediator between humans and the god Num-Torum. Bec ...

in the

Ugrian The Ugric or Ugrian languages ( or ) are a proposed branch of the Uralic language family. The name Ugric is derived from Ugrians, an archaic exonym for the Magyars (Hungarians) and Yugra, a region in northwest Russia. Ugric includes three s ...

mythology. His name means ''Spirit of Bear'' or perhaps ''Bear Spirit''.

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World view of the Hanti
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