Creator God

Supreme creator-deity of the indigenous Khasi religion (Niam Khasi / Ka Niam Tre). Treated as genderless/formless in the tradition, though the honorific 'U' is grammatically masculine. Khasi is written in the Latin/Roman script (since the 19th-c. Welsh mission orthography), so the term value uses Latin script. Gurdon 1907 is the standard colonial ethnography.

Domains

• creation and supreme sovereignty
• providence and moral order

Powers

• create and design the whole universe
• convene the divine council and apportion the clans
• governs the world through divine decree (Ka Hukum)

Epithets

• U Blei Nongthaw

Relations

• ancestor of: The Seven Huts (first human clans)

Sources

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