Mir-Susne-Hum (Mir-Setivi-Ho, Kan-iki or Otr-iki ) is a
culture hero
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group ( cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery. Although many culture heroes help with the creation of the world, most culture heroes are imp ...
of the
Samoyedic and
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 ...
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. Because Mir-Susne-Hum's mother,
Kaltes-Ekwa
In Ugrian mythology, Kaltes-Ekwa (Khanty, Kaltes Ankw) was the mother of the hero Mir-Susne-Hum and the wife of the god Num-Torum, who defeated her in heaven. She was also a goddess of the moon associated with the month April; a birth giving go ...
, was defeated by her husband in heaven, this meant that Mir-Susne-Hum had to be born on earth. His antagonist was
Jelping-Ja-Oyka.
After a certain transformation, Mir-Susne-Hum was given an iron horse with eight wings.
Further reading
* Abenójar Sanjuán, Óscar. “La deidad obi-ugria El Hombre que Vigila el Mundo y el mito de la Estrella Alce”. In: ''Culturas Populares. Revista Electrónica'' 6 (enero-junio 2008). http://www.culturaspopulares.org/textos6/articulos/abenojar.htm; .
External links and references
"A rise of Mir-Susne-Hum." Graphic cycle dedicated to a national Ob-Ugrian (Ostyak - Hant and Vogul - Mansi) hero.World view of the Hanti
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Ob-Ugrian gods
Heroes in mythology and legend