Dezau

Kalash creator deity; Dezalik is his sister.

Names and tradition associations

• Dezalik Kalash · resolvedMichael Witzel, Kalash Religion, extract from The Ṛgvedic Religious System (2004), §§1.5.1–1.5.3, pp.3–8 and n.4 (secondary)

Variant accounts

• source review correctionSeparate the sister from the creator’s aliases.Michael Witzel, Kalash Religion, extract from The Ṛgvedic Religious System (2004), §§1.5.1–1.5.3, pp.3–8 and n.4 (secondary)
• source review correctionThe old target was justified through a different figure’s alias.Michael Witzel, Kalash Religion, extract from The Ṛgvedic Religious System (2004), §§1.5.1–1.5.3, pp.3–8 and n.4 (secondary)
• source review correctionReplace the conflated description.Michael Witzel, Kalash Religion, extract from The Ṛgvedic Religious System (2004), §§1.5.1–1.5.3, pp.3–8 and n.4 (secondary)

Domains

• creation
• sky and heavens

Powers

• fashions the world and the lesser gods

Relations

• sibling: DezalikMichael Witzel, Kalash Religion, extract from The Ṛgvedic Religious System (2004), §§1.5.1–1.5.3, pp.3–8 and n.4 (secondary)

Sources

• Dezau (ḍezáw) is the supreme creator/sky god of the still-practised Kalash religion, also called Khodai; his name derives from PIE *dheigh- 'to fashion', and he has a female counterpart Dezalik.: Witzel, M. (2004). Kalash Religion. Groningen: Forsten. (scholarship); Cacopardo, A.M. & Cacopardo, A.S. (2001). Gates of Peristan. Rome: IsIAO. (scholarship)