First Woman
Santal · mortal · primordial first generation (Hihiri Pipiri) · Recorded classification
Santali pilcu buṛhi = 'old woman'. Mortal first ancestress.
Domains
- ancestry
Powers
- bears the seven daughters who found the Santal clans
Relations
- spouse: First ManReciprocal of santal_pilcu_haram.spouse — The first man and first woman, hatched from the two eggs of the Has-Hasil geese at Hihiri Pipiri.Skrefsrud, Horkoren Mare Hapramko reak' Katha (1887; trans. Bodding, Traditions and Institutions of the Santals, 1942) (primary)
Sources
- Pilcu Budhi is the first woman in Santal cosmogony, hatched with Pilcu Haram at Hihiri-Pipiri and ancestress of the clans.: Bodding, P.O. (1942). Santal Folk Tales. Oslo. (scholarship); Troisi, J. (2000). Tribal Religion. Manohar. (scholarship)