Ilet

Kalenjin · numen · mythic · numen

Ilet (Ilat; also Toiyoi) is the Kalenjin/Nandi god-being of thunder, rain and lightning, who inhabits deep pools and waterfalls and whose discarded garments are the rainbow. Authored as a numen, era 'mythic'. He is the overarching thunder being whose dual nature is individuated among the Nandi into the good and evil thunders (kalenjin_ilet_ne_mie, kalenjin_ilet_ne_ya), wired here as his two 'aspect' beings (reciprocated on each). No kin edge is asserted to Asis: the sources name Asis and Ilat as the two principal deities side by side but attest no genealogical link between them.

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