Creator God
Garo · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Supreme creator-deity of the Garo Songsarek religion. The long honorific name is a string of -gipa agentive epithets ('the one who makes/creates/forms/fashions'). Garo is written in the Roman script (and historically Bengali); the term value uses Latin, with a Bengali transliteration noted where the language was rendered in that script. Playfair 1909 is the standard ethnography.
Domains
- creation and cosmic sovereignty
- fate and the ordering of the world
Powers
- ordain the creation of the earth and harden it
Epithets
- Tatara-Rabuga The creator who commanded that the earth be shaped from the primeval watersA. Playfair, The Garos (secondary)
- Dakgipa Rugipa Stugipa Pantugipa the maker-shaper-former-fashioner; the supreme creator 'so high he cannot be reached'Wikipedia, 'Songsarek' (secondary)
Relations
- ally: Earth-Maker MotherReciprocal of garo_nostu_nopantu.ally — Deputed by the creator Tatara-Rabuga to fashion the earth, spreading land upon the waters in his name.A. Playfair, The Garos (1909) (secondary)
Sources
- Tatara-Rabuga (ceremonial full name Dakgipa Rugipa Stugipa Pantugipa) is the Garo supreme creator who directs the making of the earth from above, sending Nostu-Nopantu to do the work.: A. Playfair, The Garos, London, 1909 (ethnography)