Baingap
Ilahita Arapesh · numen · Ilahita Arapesh traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Baingap is a named figure of Ilahita Arapesh oral tradition, the protagonist of an origin narrative set in the mythic past when the present order of ritual and subsistence was established. Accounts of the narrative vary between tellings, and such myths are understood in the scholarship as charters for the Tambaran cult and for the relations between the sexes and the generations rather than as fixed texts.
Domains
- origins
Powers
- figures in the establishment of the primordial order
Sources
- Baingap is a named figure of Ilahita Arapesh oral tradition, protagonist of an origin narrative recorded in the ethnographic literature of the region.: Tuzin, Donald F. 1980. The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press. (secondary)