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

• Earth Mother
• 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: Moon

Sources

• P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, Macmillan, 1907
• P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, 1907