Lord of the Great Mountain

Spirit-class figure (a deified human who died a violent death), classed as deity. English title leads; native Min Mahagiri (မင်းမဟာဂီရိ) and human name Maung Tint De in alt.

Domains

• household protection
• mountains and volcanoes

Powers

• Watches over the dwelling from the main house-post
• Returns from a death by fire to claim worship from his betrayers

Epithets

• Lord of the Great Mountain latin · Min Mahagiri · cultChief of the Thirty-Seven Nats; the house-guardian spirit of Mount PopaR. C. Temple, The Thirty-Seven Nats (secondary)
• မောင်တင့်တယ် Burmese · Maung Tint De · mythhuman name; 'Handsome Maung Tint De', the Tagaung blacksmithMahagiri nat tradition; legend of the Tagaung smith (secondary)
• မင်းမဟာဂီရိ Burmese · Min Mahagiri · cultLord of the Great MountainBurmese Thirty-Seven Nats tradition (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: Lady Golden FaceThe smith Maung Tinde and his sister died in the king's tamarind-tree fire and were enshrined together as the Mahagiri house-nats of Mount Popa.Temple, The Thirty-Seven Nats: A Phase of Spirit-Worship Prevailing in Burma (1906) (secondary)

Sources

• Min Mahagiri ('Lord of the Great Mountain'), formerly the blacksmith Maung Tint De who was burned to death, is chief of the household nats and the figure with whom the cult of the Thirty-Seven Nats is said to begin.: R. C. Temple, The Thirty-Seven Nats, London, 1906 (secondary); Melford E. Spiro, Burmese Supernaturalism, expanded ed. 1978 (secondary)