Everyone and everything
Lingo
Pahandi Kupar Lingo · Pari Kupar Lingo
The culture hero and first priest of the Gonds, who freed the Gond gods from the cave where Mahadeo had sealed them…
Pokala Dhammakka
The tribal woman of the Bhadrachalam hills who found the images of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in an anthill and began…
Vishvavasu
The Sabara chief who worshipped Nila Madhava in secret in the forest before the deity was carried into Puri's temple…
Viswavasu
Vishvavasu
The Sabara chief of the Jagannath origin story who worshipped Nilamadhava hidden in the forest and whose daughter…
Bhagavan (Baiga)
The high god of the Baiga tellings Elwin collected, who sends for Nanga Baiga to fix the earth; the name is the Hindi…
Bhagwan (Bhil)
The supreme deity of the Bhils as documented by Wilhelm Koppers, who in the flood tale makes the earth and the first…
Marang Buru
Great Mountain
'Great mountain', the Santal deity closest to people and leader of the bongas (spirits), invoked in the sacred grove.
Nanga Baiga
The first Baiga man of the tradition Verrier Elwin recorded, born with his wife Nanga Baigin from drops of a sage's…
Nanga Baigin
Nanga Baiga's wife, who in the Baiga telling drove the nails into the four corners of the world and made the slippery…
Persa Pen
Bara Deo · Great God
The 'great god' of the Gond clans, established as an object of worship by Lingo after the gods were freed from the cave.
Pilchu Budhi
The first woman of Santal tradition, partner of Pilchu Haram, from whom the Santal clans descend.
Pilchu Haram
The first man of Santal tradition, hatched with Pilchu Budhi from the eggs of the birds Thakur Jiu made.
Sabara
Savara · Saora
A forest-dwelling tribal community of Odisha named in the Jagannath origin tradition as the first worshippers of the…
Singbonga
Sing Bonga · Sun God
The sun god and creator of Munda and Ho tradition, who brooded over the first waters, sent creatures diving for clay…
Thakur Jiu
Thakur · Marang Buru (leader of the bongas, distinct)
The creator in Santal tradition, who made the first water-birds over the primal ocean and, through their eggs, the…