Supreme Lord
Karbi · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Karbi (Karbi Anglong, Assam) supreme creator and household god, classed as deity. Worshipped jointly with Mukrang as the creator-pair 'Hemphu-Mukrang'. The traditional animist religion is called Aronban. Sources here are specialist community/ethnographic web essays; the underlying oral text is the Karbi Keplang.
Children
Domains
- creation
- protection of the household
Powers
- create the world and the first Karbi parents
Epithets
- Hemphu The supreme creator and house-god of the Karbi, lord of the peopleKarbi (Mikir) ethnography of Assam (secondary)
Relations
- companion: God of Valour and JusticeInvoked together as the Karbi creator-pair; the Karbi call themselves 'Hemphu-Mukrang aso', children of the two.Edward Stack & Charles Lyall, The Mikirs (1908) (secondary)
- companion: Goddess of the TrinityReciprocal of karbi_rasinja.companion — Rasinja is the female member of the Karbi supreme triad invoked together as Hemphu-Mukrang(-Rasinja); recorded as companion, matching the existing Hemphu-Mukrang pairing.Lyall & Stack, The Mikirs (1908); Karbi vernacular-religion (Aronbar) ethnography (secondary)
Sources
- Hemphu is the supreme universal deity of the Karbi, creator and protector and chief of the holy trinity of Karbi gods; traditional Karbis call themselves 'Hemphu-Mukrang aso' (sons of Hemphu and Mukrang).: 'Understanding the Karbi Folk Religion', karbi.wordpress.com, accessed June 2026 (secondary); 'Origin of Karbi (Myth)', kisongblog.wordpress.com, accessed June 2026 (secondary)
- In the Karbi Keplang (origin recitation) the divine duo Hemphu and Mukrang create the cosmos and the first human pair Sum and Sang, whose five sons head the principal exogamous clans.: Karbi origin-myth surveys (Karbi Keplang Alun), accessed June 2026 (secondary)