Singbonga and the clay-divers

For the Mundas and Hos the maker is Singbonga, the sun. He sat over the primal water and wanted ground; he sent down a tortoise, which came back with nothing, then a crab, which fared no better, and last an earthworm, which brought the clay up in its body. From that clay he made the earth and afterwards the first people. Another strand tells of a boy and girl sheltering in a cave whom the god taught to brew rice-beer, and from whose union the peoples descend. The Asur legend, documented in the Sahapedia collection, ties the founding of Munda priesthood to Singbonga's defeat of the Asurs, the iron-smelters. No Puranic god has a part. Ho and Oraon tellings were not separately researched.