Kittung (the Creator High-God)

Kittung is the high creator god of the Sora, a Munda (Austroasiatic) people of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh studied by Elwin and Vitebsky. Sora religious life is dominated less by Kittung than by the sonum — the experiential dead-and-spirit beings with whom shamans hold dialogue.

Domains

• creation

Powers

• to create the world and the first beings

Sources

• Verrier Elwin, The Religion of an Indian Tribe (London: Oxford University Press, 1955).
• Piers Vitebsky, Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).