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Nga

Siberian Deities
Nga

Among the Nenets people of Siberia, Nga was the god of death and one of two demiurges, or supreme gods, alongside his father Num. He presided over a realm beneath the earth and was understood as ruler of the underworld. His relationship with Num was antagonistic even as the two together embodied a dualistic Nenets cosmology in which the work of creation required both collaboration and rivalry between opposing divine forces.

Facts
Attestation
Veneration Today
Venerated in a modern revival tradition 2
Historicity
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1
Function
Domain / Function
The underworld 1
Identity
Gender
Male 2
Belief
Theology
Polytheistic: 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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