Kittung (the Creator High-God)
Sora · deity · Sora traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
- Kittung is the creator high-god of the Sora, the supreme being above the experiential spirit-beings (sonum).: Verrier Elwin, The Religion of an Indian Tribe (London: Oxford University Press, 1955). (secondary); Piers Vitebsky, Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). (secondary)