Omnipresent Supreme Knowledge-Mother
Kirati · deity · primordial / before creation · deity
Kirati high god of the Limbu (Yakthung) branch. 'Tagera' = omnipresent, 'ningwa' = mind/knowledge, 'phu' = earliest/foremost, '-ma' = feminine/motherhood suffix, giving roughly 'Omnipresent Supreme Knowledge-Mother'; sometimes rendered 'Supreme Body of Knowledge'. Classed as deity (a supreme creatress). The supreme principle is impersonal/abstract but is personified on earth as the dyad Yuma Sammang and Theba Sammang.
Domains
- creation
- supreme knowledge
Powers
- create the universe and all beings
- take earthly form as the grandmother-goddess
Epithets
- Tagera Ningwaphuma