Labosum (the Earth-Sonum)
Sora · numen · Sora traditional religion; continuing · numen
Labosum, explicitly named by Elwin as the Earth-God, is the sonum of the ground; offerings are made to her for the fertility of the swiddens.
Domains
Powers
- to bear and sustain the cultivated crops
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).
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