Deng

Prominent Nuer spirit of the above, associated with rain and sickness; son of Buk. Cognate with Dinka Deng.

Parentage

• Buk

Domains

• sky above
• sickness rain
• rain and fertility
• disease and pestilence

Powers

• Bring sickness and fever upon people
• sends the rain as the foremost spirit of the above
• brings fever and sickness on those he seizes

Relations

• equated with: Deng

Sources

• Evans-Pritchard, Nuer Religion (1956)