Nhialic
Dinka · deity · primordial · deity
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
Sources
- Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience (1961)
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