Sun

Female solar deity — a notable gender-inversion of the common male-sun pattern. Forms the sun-sister/moon-brother pair foregrounded in this batch. 'Ka' marks feminine gender, 'Sngi' = sun/day. The ash-throwing myth is the Khasi etiology of the moon's dim, marked face and the cause of eclipses (U Bnai catching up). Khasi Roman orthography.

Parentage

• parent: Earth Mother
• parent: World-Guardian Consort of the Earth-Mother

Domains

• sun and daylight
• chastity and female honour

Powers

• blaze across the sky in flight from the moon

Relations

• sibling: MoonSun-sister and Moon-brother, children of the Earth Mother; when U Bnai desired his elder sister she flung ashes in his face, the etiology of the moon's spots and paler light.P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis (1907) (secondary)

Sources

• Ka Sngi is the Khasi Sun, conceived as female — the elder sister of the male Moon U Bnai, both children of the earth-mother Ka Ramew and U Basa.: P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, Macmillan, 1907 (ethnography)
• When her brother the Moon lusted after her, the Sun threw ashes in his face; this is why the moon is pale/spotted and why she flees him eternally (and the basis of the eclipse story).: P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, 1907 (ethnography)