Great Origin of Becoming

Name = 'the great beginning of becoming.' Sex 'none' (explicitly both male and female). Surat Batak (Toba) rendering given approximately.

Children

• First of the Three High Gods
• Third of the Three High Gods
• Second of the Three High Gods

Variant accounts

• Toba origin accountDixon’s Toba narrative says Mula Dyadi creates three male beings, then a hen lays the eggs from which their three brides emerge. It does not describe those men themselves as hatched from the eggs.Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (1916), pp.160–163, 173: Toba, Dairi and Karo accounts (secondary)

Domains

• creation and origin
• life fertility and fate

Powers

• brings forth the gods, the worlds and all that exists
• remains source of life, fertility and prosperity after creation
• Brings forth the gods, the worlds and all that exists

Epithets

• Mula Jadi Na Bolon latin · Mula Jadi Na Bolon · cultThe Great Beginning of Becoming; the supreme Toba Batak creator of the three worldsJohannes Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: Weaver Who Made the EarthPrimordial origin of becoming; father of Batara Guru (encoded on Batara Guru) and thus ancestor of Batara Guru's daughter Si Boru Deak Parujar, the earth-weaver.Warneck, Die Religion der Batak (1909); Niessen, Batak Cloth and Clothing (1985) (secondary)

Sources

• Mula Jadi na Bolon is the self-existent creator high-god of the Toba Batak, ruler of the seven-layered upperworld, both male and female, who fathered the three high gods by a divine hen and remains the source of life and fertility.: 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)