Third of the Three High Gods

Third of the Debata na Tolu, the Batak high-god trinity; son of Mula Jadi na Bolon and brother of Batara Guru and Soripada. The dual-natured god (right hand virtue, left hand wrongdoing), of the lower world. Named in the batch prose of batak_batara_guru ('one of three brothers, with Soripada and Mangalabulan'); materialized here.

Parentage

• Great Origin of Becoming

Domains

• ambivalence and the lower world
• strength and war

Powers

• grant virtue or wrongdoing by the right or the left hand
• Grants virtue by the right hand and wrongdoing by the left

Relations

• sibling: First of the Three High Gods
• sibling: Second of the Three High Gods
• father: Great Origin of Becoming

Sources

• Warneck, Johannes (1909). Die Religion der Batak. Leipzig: Dieterich.
• Angerler, Johann (2016). 'Images of God in Toba Batak storytelling,' Wacana 17(2): 303-335.