The high god of the Andi and their neighbours in the Andic cluster, a single celestial creator who made the sky and earth and who apportions rain, harvest and the increase of the flocks. Because Avar long served as the language of worship and writing across the Andic communities, the deity is recorded under the Avar name Bech'ed, 'the all-sufficient one', while the Andic languages use the cognate word cʼob simply for 'God'. Sources differ on whether cʼob names a distinct Andic figure or is only the vernacular term for the same supreme being. With Islamisation from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries the creator was assimilated to Allah, yet agrarian invocations for rain and abundance preserved the older conception of a sky-dwelling lord of plenty.