Creator God
Bhil · deity · creation time · Recorded classification
Bhil personal high god; the word is borrowed (Skt. bhagavān) but the creation-and-flood cycle is the indigenous Bhil cosmogony recorded by Koppers among the Jhabua Bhils.
Domains
- creation
- fate and order
Powers
- creates the first man and woman and starts the human race
- sends and abates the world-flood
- Creates the first man and woman and starts the human race
- Sends and abates the world-flood, sparing the brother and sister with seeds
Epithets
- Bhagwan The supreme god of the Bhil, the high creator over the lesser deitiesBhil ethnography (the Pithora tradition of central India) (secondary)
Sources
- Bhagwan (Bholo Iswor) is the supreme creator high-god of the Bhils, maker of the first human pair and sender of the world-flood from which humankind is renewed.: Koppers, W. (1948). Die Bhil in Zentralindien. Wien. (scholarship); Koppers, W. & Jungblut, L. (1976). Bowmen of Mid-India. Wien. (scholarship); Naik, T.B. (1956). The Bhils: A Study. Delhi. (scholarship)