Earth Mother
Marind · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Earth-mother of the Marind dema complex; pairs with Dinadin. Treated as deity.
Children
Domains
- earth
Powers
- brings forth the first dema from the earth
Relations
- spouse: Sky FatherReciprocal of marind_dinadin.spouse — Sky-father and earth-mother, the paired primordial powers of the Marind dema cosmology recorded by Wirz.J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-Anim Culture (The Hague 1966) (secondary)
Sources
- Nubog is the earth-deity of the Marind-anim, consort of the sky-deity Dinadin and mother-source of the dema beings.: van Baal, Jan. Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (1966) (secondary); Wirz, Paul. Die Marind-anim von Holländisch-Süd-Neu-Guinea (1922–25) (secondary)