Gondi · deity · mythic founding age onward · deity
Gondi aṅga 'palanquin/standard' + dev 'god'. A collective clan-god class (sex unrecorded) treated as deity per schema; materially expressed in the swaying anga oracle of Bastar. Tied to the Lingo origin-myth and to Persa Pen worship.
Domains
clan and kinship
divination and oracle
Powers
carries the clan-god as an oracular palanquin-standard
embodies the first Gonds whom Lingo freed from the cave
Sources
Grigson, W.V. (1938). The Maria Gonds of Bastar. Oxford University Press.
Hislop, S. (1866). The Legend of Lingo, in Papers Relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces, ed. R. Temple. Nagpur.