Ta Pedn

High creator-deity. Relationship to Karei is band-variable: Schebesta's Kensiu/Kintaq material pairs Ta Pedn (sky/creator) with Karei (thunder/punisher); elsewhere the two functions merge. Name kept as the attested Semang form 'Ta Pedn' since there is no plain-word English equivalent for the proper name. Latin transcription (unwritten language).

Domains

• creation and the sky
• fashioning of humankind

Powers

• create the world and dwell in the firmament

Sources

• Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens, vol. II.1: Religion und Mythologie, 1957
• Ivor H. N. Evans, The Negritos of Malaya, Cambridge University Press, 1937
• Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens, vol. II.1, 1957