Satrig Ersang
Bön · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Satrig Ersang is the supreme goddess of the Bön religion, 'the Mother' who heads the tetrad of Four Transcendent Lords. Her name is considered to be in the Zhang-zhung language and is glossed in Tibetan as Sherab Chamma, the 'Loving Mother of Wisdom'; she is also called Yum Chenmo, the 'Great Mother'. She personifies wisdom and maternal compassion, and her wrathful counterpart is the great protectress Sipé Gyalmo.
Domains
- wisdom
- motherhood
Powers
- to bestow wisdom and loving care upon all beings
Epithets
- Yum chen moPer Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
- Byams maPer Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
Relations
- companion: Shenlha ÖkarFellow member of the Four Transcendent Lords, which she heads as 'the Mother'.Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
- companion: Sangpo BumtriFellow member of the Four Transcendent Lords.Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
- equated with: Sipé GyalmoSipé Gyalmo is regarded as the wrathful manifestation of the peaceful wisdom mother.Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
Sources
- Satrig Ersang, the 'Great Mother' of wisdom (Sherab Chamma / Yum Chenmo), is the goddess who heads the Four Transcendent Lords of the Bön pantheon.: Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary); Samten G. Karmay, The Treasury of Good Sayings: A Tibetan History of Bon, 1972 (secondary)