Nirantali is the great creatrix and first mother in the mythology of the Kuttia Kondh, one of the wilder hill sections of the Kondh in the old Ganjam and Koraput tracts of Odisha. Recorded by Verrier Elwin from Kondh oral literature, she orders the primeval world, fashioning the sun, the moon and the earth and then the first human beings, to whom she gives their languages, made from the fluttering leaves of the fig, and their first shelter and food. She is remembered as carrying banyan and fig seeds bound in leaves, and the origin of tobacco is traced to seed dropped from the bun of her hair on the banks of a river. Her cycle stands somewhat apart from the Bura Pennu and Tari Pennu creation account of the plains Kondh, representing the distinct cosmogony of the Kuttia branch.