Labosum (the Earth-Sonum)

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

• 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).