Topogh

Topogh is the personified evening star (Venus at dusk) in Pokot (Suk) mythology, named as the firstborn daughter of the creator Tororut and his consort Seta. She belongs to the family of benevolent sky-deities, sister to Arawa the moon and Ilat the rain, and is grouped with her mother Seta and the Kokel among the star-powers of the Suk heaven. Her prominence as a named female star-deity, alongside the Pleiades-goddess Seta, distinguishes the northern Pokot pantheon from the largely solar and monotheistic religion of the southern Kalenjin.

Parentage

• parent: Tororut
• parent: Seta

Domains

• evening star

Powers

• to shine at dusk as the evening star

Relations

• sibling: ArawaSister of Arawa, the moon, among the children of Tororut and Seta.Mervyn W. H. Beech, The Suk: Their Language and Folklore (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911). (secondary)

Sources

• Topogh is the evening-star goddess of the Pokot/Suk, named as the firstborn daughter of the sky-god Tororut and his wife Seta and one of the benevolent celestial deities.: Mervyn W. H. Beech, The Suk: Their Language and Folklore (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911). (secondary); Michael Jordan, Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, 2nd ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2004). (secondary)