Dinga (Dinga Pennu) is the judge of the dead in the classic account of Kondh religion set down by the officer S. C. Macpherson in the mid-nineteenth century and rehearsed by E. B. Tylor and later encyclopaedists. All the Kondh gods (Pennu) are held to descend from the supreme light-god Bura Pennu and the earth-goddess Tari Pennu; among the resulting second order of deities, alongside the gods of rain, war, boundaries, hunting and increase, stands Dinga, who judges the souls of the departed and apportions their retribution. He thus fills, within the Kondh pantheon, the office of divine assessor of the dead.