Masing, also given as Masin or Maseng, is the high god of Mundang religion, a sky-dwelling creator whose name the elders say the first ancestors already knew. Glossed as 'the most high,' he is a distant divinity who does not intervene directly in human affairs; his name is uttered chiefly in sickness, when healing is sought. Yet Mundang piety turns not to him but to the sacred king of Léré, who is believed able to obtain from Masing whatever he wishes, for good or ill. In this cosmology the high god and the land of the dead form the remote upper term of a vertical order whose lower, accessible end is the king himself. Tradition sets beneath him lesser powers governing birth, the rain and the sun.