God · Tribal · East India · Jharkhand, Santal Pargana
Thakur Jiu
The creator in Santal tradition, who made the first water-birds over the primal ocean and, through their eggs, the first human couple; no Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva takes part in the story.
Sources: Santal people — Wikipedia; Cosmography in the oral tradition of the Santhals: an anthropological perspective · see Thakur Jiu's web