Noble Mother Goddess

Daughter/emanation of Sang Hyang Kersa in some Sunda Wiwitan accounts. Counterpart to the male high-god as the maternal divine principle.

Parentage

• Almighty Will

Children

• Guru Minda

Domains

• motherhood and the heavens
• protection of heroes

Powers

• watches over the homeland and protects honoured mortals
• revives fallen heroes and dispenses heavenly favour

Epithets

• Batari Sunan Ambu

Relations

• ally: Prince Hero of Pajajaran

Sources

• Eringa, F.S. (1949). Loetoeng Kasaroeng: een mythologisch verhaal uit West-Java. Verhandelingen KITLV. The Hague: Nijhoff.
• Noorduyn, J. & Teeuw, A. (2006). Three Old Sundanese Poems. Leiden: KITLV Press.