Batara Guru (Karo)
Batak · deity · primordial age of the gods · Recorded classification
In Dixon’s Karo account, Batara Guru and his unnamed wife, daughter of an underworld deity, obtain three sons and three daughters after receiving a wish-granting ring. A son makes the world; an underworld son shakes it. Batara Guru stabilizes it with an iron pillar and cross-beams.
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 Dixon’s Karo account, Batara Guru and his unnamed wife, daughter of an underworld deity, obtain three sons and three daughters after receiving a wish-granting ring. A son makes the world; an underworld son shakes it. Batara Guru stabilizes it with an iron pillar and cross-beams.: Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (1916), pp.160–163, 173: Toba, Dairi and Karo accounts (secondary)