The Clan-Standard Gods

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.