World-Guardian Consort of the Earth-Mother

Khasi world-guardian deity, husband of the earth-mother Ka Mei Ramew; the existing Ka Mei Ramew, Ka Sngi and U Bnai entries already name him (U Basa) in their prose as her consort and the father of the children. Classed deity. Ramew (earth) and Basa (stone) are the original binary creative pair of the Khasi cosmogony. Father-of edges declared here; the two existing children need khasi_u_basa appended to their parentIds.

Children

• Sun
• Moon

Domains

• earth and the land
• tutelary guardianship

Powers

• guard the earth alongside Ka Mei Ramew

Relations

• spouse: Earth Mother
• father of: Sun
• father of: Moon

Sources

• P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, Macmillan, 1907 (Ka Ramew the guardian spirit of the earth and her husband U Basa)
• Khasi Heritage: The Creation Myth, highlandpost.com; East India Story, Mother Earth (Ramew and Basa as the original binary pair), accessed June 2026