Third of the Three High Gods
Batak · deity · primordial age of the gods · Recorded classification
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
- father: Great Origin of BecomingSon of the creator Mula Jadi na Bolon.Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (1909) — Mula Jadi na Bolon fathered the three high gods. (secondary)
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 GodsBrother of Batara Guru in the Debata na Tolu; reciprocal sibling edge needed on batak_batara_guru.Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (1909) — the three high gods Batara Guru, Soripada and Mangalabulan. (secondary)
- sibling: Second of the Three High GodsBrother of Soripada; reciprocated within this batch.Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (1909). (secondary)
- father: Great Origin of BecomingSon of the creator Mula Jadi na Bolon.Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (1909) — Mula Jadi na Bolon fathered the three high gods. (secondary)
Sources
- Mangalabulan (Bala Bulan), the third of the Batak high-god trinity (Debata na Tolu) and a son of Mula Jadi na Bolon, is the ambivalent dual-handed god of the lower world who bestows both good and ill, brother of Batara Guru and Soripada.: Warneck, Johannes (1909). Die Religion der Batak. Leipzig: Dieterich. (secondary); Angerler, Johann (2016). 'Images of God in Toba Batak storytelling,' Wacana 17(2): 303-335. (secondary)