Manoid
Semang · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Female deity. Kinship to Karei/Ta Pedn is band-variable — 'grandmother' (Yak = grandmother/old woman) in Schebesta's genealogical telling, 'wife of Karei' (Manoij) in other Semang material. Associated with the earth, fruitfulness, the world-pillar, and the rising of subterranean waters. Latin transcription.
Domains
- earth and the world pillar
- fruit and plant fertility
Powers
- cast down fruit to make the earth fruitful
- guard the root of the heaven-supporting pillar
Relations
- spouse: ThunderBand-variable kinship: Manoid is the thunder-god's wife in some Semang tellings, while elsewhere she is the grandmother (Yak) paired with Ta Pedn.P. Schebesta, Among the Forest Dwarfs of Malaya (1929) (primary)
Sources
- Yak Manoid is a female Semang deity, grandmother of Karei and Ta Pedn in some accounts (and elsewhere Karei's wife, Manoij), who gives fruit to the earth and guards the root of the heaven-pillar Batu Herem with Kalcheng and Takel.: Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens, vol. II.1: Religion und Mythologie, 1957 (ethnography)