Sugaar
Sign in to savethumb|Modern rendering of Sugaar as serpent in the lauburu by Josu Goñi
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- Instance of
- snake worship
- Gender
- male
- Child
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- pseudonym
- Maju
- worshipped by
- Basque mythology
- domain of saint or deity
- thunder
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thumb|Modern rendering of Sugaar as serpent in the lauburu by Josu Goñi
In Basque mythology, Sugaar (also Sugar, Sugoi, Suarra, Maju) is the male half of a pre-Christian Basque deity associated with storms and thunder. He is normally imagined as a dragon or serpent. Unlike his female consort, Mari, there are very few remaining legends about Sugaar. The basic purpose of his existence is to periodically join with Mari in the mountains to generate the storms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sugaar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.