Batara Guru (Dairi)
Batak · deity · primordial age of the gods · Recorded classification
In the Dairi account summarized by Dixon, Batara Guru builds a raft with seven pieces of wood, makes the earth upon it, and assigns a goat to support it. He later fashions a human pair from heavenly earth and gives them breath and speech through formulas. His pregnant wife and his children are not named in the passage.
Relations
- regional cult form: First of the Three High GodsSeparate regional narrative; names and parentages are not automatically transferred.Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (1916), pp.160–163, 173: Toba, Dairi and Karo accounts (secondary)
Sources
- In the Dairi account summarized by Dixon, Batara Guru builds a raft with seven pieces of wood, makes the earth upon it, and assigns a goat to support it. He later fashions a human pair from heavenly earth and gives them breath and speech through formulas. His pregnant wife and his children are not named in the passage.: Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (1916), pp.160–163, 173: Toba, Dairi and Karo accounts (secondary)