Nhialic
Dinka · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Supreme Divinity of the Dinka, identified with the sky, encompassing the free- and clan-divinities.
Domains
- supreme divinity
- sky heaven
Powers
- Create and uphold all life as supreme Divinity
- Withdraw to the sky when first humans transgress
- creates and upholds all life as supreme Divinity, sky and rain
- withdraws to the sky and severs the rope between heaven and earth after the first offense
Epithets
- Nhialic 'the one above / of the sky' (nhial 'sky, above') — the Dinka supreme divinity, also addressed as Aciek 'the Creator' and as FatherLienhardt, Godfrey. Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka, Oxford/Clarendon, 1961 (secondary scholarship)
Sources
- existence: Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience (1961) (secondary)