Horagalles
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In Sámi shamanism, Western Sámi Horagalles, often equated with Eastern Sámi Tiermes, Baján, and Aijeke or Äijih (), is the thunder god. He is depicted as a wooden figure with a nail in the head and with a hammer, or occasionally on shaman drums, two hammers.
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- Names
- Characteristics and functions
- Horagalles depicted on Sámi shaman drums
- References
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In Sámi shamanism, Western Sámi Horagalles, often equated with Eastern Sámi Tiermes, Baján, and Aijeke or Äijih (), is the thunder god. He is depicted as a wooden figure with a nail in the head and with a hammer, or occasionally on shaman drums, two hammers.
==Names== The name Horagalles does not occur in older dictionaries of Sámi languages, for instance in the mid-19th century. He is often equated with Tiermes; in 1673 Johannes Scheffer, who did not use the name Horagalles, wrote that when Aijeke thundered, he was called Tiermes. There is considerable regional variation in the names; Horagalles (with its various spellings, including Thoragalles) is characteristically southern Sámi and Tiermes and variants being commonly used among Northern Sámi, and the rainbow is referred to by a variety of names referring to thunder.