Garang
Dinka · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Free-divinity associated with men and the first man, paired with Abuk; linked to fevers and to healing.
Children
Domains
- men vitality
Powers
- Be the first man, paired with Abuk
- Bring fevers yet also empower healers
- is the first man, shaped from clay and paired with Abuk
- sends fevers yet also empowers the healers who cure them
Epithets
- the first man the first manWikipedia, 'Dinka religion' (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: AbukReciprocal of dinka_abuk.spouse — The first woman and first man, paired in Dinka tradition as the primordial couple; their named free-divinities remain patrons of women and men respectively.G. Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka (1961) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience (1961) (secondary)