The Clan-Standard Gods
Gondi · deity · mythic founding age onward · Recorded classification
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
- The Anga Dev (Angadevs) are Gond clan-gods carried as oracular wooden palanquin-standards (anga) at the pen madai; in the Lingo legend they are the children of Kali Kankali whom Lingo freed from the cave to become the emissaries of his message.: Grigson, W.V. (1938). The Maria Gonds of Bastar. Oxford University Press. (scholarship); Hislop, S. (1866). The Legend of Lingo, in Papers Relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces, ed. R. Temple. Nagpur. (scholarship)