Baingap
Ilahita Arapesh · numen · Ilahita Arapesh traditional religion; continuing · numen
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