Salailen
Manipuri · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Supreme sky-father deity of the Meitei tradition (Sanamahism). Multiple parallel theological titles across the puya corpus: Salailen / Soraren in the older puya tradition; Atingkok Maru Sidaba (the Atingkok primordial-void title) in the cosmological tradition; Tengbanba Mapu in the Leithak Leikhalon Puya philosophical theology. The same supreme-creator-figure under different titles. Father of the major Meitei pantheon (Sanamahi, Pakhangba) and, under the Mongán-pattern medieval-literary divine-paternity tradition, father of the Moirang king Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba by Queen Thamoilembi.
Children
Domains
- supreme sky father and source of creation
- thunder and lightning as divine manifestation
Powers
- Names and blesses the firstborn god
- Smites evil spirits with a thunderbolt
Epithets
- Atiya Sidaba the immortal of the skyNames of the Supreme God in Meitei religion, Simple English Wikipedia; Atingkok, Wikipedia (secondary)
- Atingkok Maru Sidaba immortal primordial-void fatherAtingkok, Wikipedia (secondary)
- Tengbanba Mapu the supporting/sustaining LordSidaba Mapu, Wikipedia; Names of the Supreme God in Meitei religion (secondary)
- Soraren the heavens / sky-lordSidaba Mapu, Wikipedia (secondary)
Relations
- father of: Sanamahi (Lainingthou Sanamahi, king of all gods) · ManipuriSanamahi Laihui (primary)
- father of: Pakhangba (primordial dragon-deity, ancestor of the seven Meitei clans) · ManipuriWakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amailon Pukok Puya (primary)
- father of: Chothe Thangwai PakhangbaChothe Thangwai Pakhangba puya (primary)
- spouse: Leimarel SidabiS. N. Arambam Parratt, The Religion of Manipur (1980) — Salailen/Atiya Guru Sidaba and the earth-mother Leimarel Sidabi as the divine parents of Sanamahi and Pakhangba (secondary)