Kini'je is a deity of the Yukaghir people of Siberia, understood in their tradition as governing the flow of time. He is one of several deities named in Yukaghir belief alongside the supreme god Pon and the sun god Pugu.
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Attestation
Veneration TodayVenerated in a modern revival tradition 2 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination
Ronald Hutton, Hambledon and London
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