Labosum (the Earth-Sonum)
Sora · numen · Sora traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
- the earth
Powers
- to bear and sustain the cultivated crops
Sources
- Labosum is the Sora earth-deity (Earth-sonum), the spirit of the ground honoured in cultivation rites.: 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)