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Pantheon

Basque

Polytheistic (Historical) Pantheons

The small cast of nature spirits and personified forces recorded in Basque oral legend, headed by the mountain goddess Mari and her consort Sugaar.

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Attestation
Era of Attestation
Attested from Basque oral tradition and folklore, documented in the outside record chiefly through the early twentieth century CE ethnographic work of Jose Miguel de Barandiaran, though held by its custodians to be far older. 1
Correspondences & Relations

Pantheon Members

Pantheon Of

Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
Selected Writings of Jose Miguel de Barandiaran: Basque Prehistory and Ethnography
Jose Miguel de Barandiaran, ed. Jesus Altuna, trans. Frederick H. Fornoff, Linda White and Carys Evans-Corrales, Center for Basque Studies Press, University of Nevada, Reno (Basque Classics Series 6), 2007Barandiaran's survey of the Basque pantheon figuresView the Source
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