Zonget is a nature goddess of the Mansi people of Siberia, known as the mistress of herds and ruling over birds, animals, and the people who hunt them. Mansi hunters, particularly shamans of hunting communities, made offerings to her and treated the creatures they killed with reverence.
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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 Function
Domain / Function 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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