Lady of the Lake
Balinese · deity · perennial / agrarian ritual present · Recorded classification
Often paired conceptually with the god of Gunung Agung/the volcano as the female (water) to his male (fire/mountain) pole.
Domains
- fresh water and lakes
- irrigation and rice terraces
Powers
- releases and apportions the waters that irrigate the rice terraces
- Rule Lake Batur as the source of Bali's rivers and springs
Sources
- Dewi Danu is the Balinese goddess of the crater-lake Batur and of fresh water/irrigation, patron of the subak rice-irrigation cooperatives and reckoned one of Bali's two paramount deities alongside the god of the volcano.: Lansing, J. Stephen (1991). Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali. Princeton University Press. (secondary); Lansing, J. Stephen (2006). Perfect Order. Princeton University Press. (secondary)