Deng

Foremost free-divinity of rain and sky; in some genealogies a son of Abuk.

Parentage

• parent: Abuk
• parent: Garang

Domains

• rain sky
• fertility life

Powers

• Send rain and strike with lightning
• sends the rain and strikes with lightning as the foremost free-divinity of the sky

Epithets

• Deng dinka · Dengthe great free-divinity of rain, sky and lightning (deng also = 'rain'); 'son of Divinity', associated with thunder and fertilising stormLienhardt, Godfrey. Divinity and Experience, 1961 (secondary scholarship)
• Dengdit Dinka · Dengdit · cultGreat Deng / Deng the GreatWikipedia, 'Dinka religion' (secondary)

Relations

• equated with: DengSame theonym and figure: Deng, the great rain/sky free-divinity. Evans-Pritchard records that the Nuer regard Deng as a spirit of Dinka origin — a Nilotic areal identity, part inheritance, part borrowing.E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Nuer Religion (1956), ch. 2, on air-spirits of Dinka origin (secondary); Godfrey Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka (1961) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience (1961) (secondary)