Salailen

Manipuri · deity · primordial · deity

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.

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