Roog
Serer · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Genderless Serer supreme creator; the merciful immensity from whom life flows and to whom it returns.
Domains
- creation
- supreme being
Powers
- Create the universe from the primordial cosmic egg
- Maintain the balance and order of all existence
Epithets
- Roog Sene The supreme, merciful creator-god of the Serer, source and end of all thingsHenry Gravrand, on Serer religion (Cosaan) (secondary)
Relations
- companion: PangoolReciprocal of serer_pangool.companion — The ancestral snake-saints are the canonical intercessors carrying prayer between the Serer and the supreme Roog.Henry Gravrand, La civilisation sereer: Pangool (Dakar 1990) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Gravrand, La civilisation sereer: Cosaan (Dakar, 1983) (secondary)
- role: Gravrand, La civilisation sereer: Pangool (1990) (secondary)