Bhima the Rain-Giant
Gondi · demigod · mythic age · Recorded classification
The prompt's 'Bhimal/Bhima'. A culture-hero raised to divinity (demigod); name borrows from the Mahabharata Bhima but the tribal cult (rain-stones, no idol) is indigenous.
Domains
- rain and weather
- strength and might
Powers
- brings the rains and fertilizes the fields
- performs feats of giant strength
Sources
- Bhimal Pen (Bhimsen) is a Gond rain-and-strength deity, a divinized giant-hero invoked for rainfall and harvest, identified with the epic Bhima but worshipped in his own aniconic cult.: Elwin, V. (1949). Myths of Middle India. Oxford University Press. (scholarship); Fuchs, S. (1960). The Gond and Bhumia of Eastern Mandla. Asia Publishing House. (scholarship)