Nyaliep is a named female water-spirit of the Nuer, associated with streams. Evans-Pritchard records that Buk, the river-divinity and mother of Deng, is said to have 'daughters' likewise associated with streams or with particular streams, among them Nyaliep; he explains that 'daughters' is here a figure of speech for Nuer maidens whom God took and put in the water, where they became spirits. In some accounts Candit, elsewhere treated as another name of Buk herself, is named alongside Nyaliep as such a daughter. Reference works on female divinities, following Evans-Pritchard, list Nyaliep among the river-goddesses of the Nuer of the southern Sudan.