Jábmiidáhkká

Sources do not record a cosmogonic origin myth for Jábmiidáhkká. Scholarly commentary notes that a female ruler of the underworld likely was not the original concept in Proto-Uralic religion and that the development of a female underworld sovereign in Sámi tradition has been interpreted as a way to portray oppositional symmetry in the otherworld.

The provided sources contain no physical or iconographic description of Jábmiidáhkká. Later Christian influence is reported to have reinterpreted her role, associating Jábmiidaibmu with purgatory and linking Jábmiidáhkká with the Virgin Mary, but no native visual depiction is given in the cited excerpts.

Jábmiidáhkká governs Jábmiidaibmu and acts as a gatekeeper for the dead. The dead in Jábmiidaibmu were said to miss their living relatives, and Jábmiidáhkká sometimes allowed them to cause diseases among the living. If the dead managed to catch the soul of a living person and drag it down to Jábmiidaibmu, the afflicted person could fall into a coma or fatal illness. Jábmiidáhkká could permit a captured soul to return if sufficient offerings were made.