Noble Mother Goddess
Sundanese · deity · mythic age of the gods (kahyangan) · Recorded classification
Daughter/emanation of Sang Hyang Kersa in some Sunda Wiwitan accounts. Counterpart to the male high-god as the maternal divine principle.
Parentage
- parent: Almighty Will
Children
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 the Lady Mother (of heaven)Sundanese Sunda Wiwitan tradition; wayang golek (secondary)
Relations
- ally: Prince Hero of PajajaranReciprocal of sundanese_mundinglaya.ally — The hero's quest reaches Sunan Ambu's kahyangan, where the Noble Mother aids him to win the Layang Salaka Domas.Pantun Mundinglaya di Kusumah (Sundanese oral epic) (primary)
Sources
- Sunan Ambu (Batari Sunan Ambu) is the supreme mother-goddess of Sundanese mythology, dwelling in Kahyangan, protector of the homeland and helper of heroes in the carita pantun corpus.: Eringa, F.S. (1949). Loetoeng Kasaroeng: een mythologisch verhaal uit West-Java. Verhandelingen KITLV. The Hague: Nijhoff. (secondary); Noorduyn, J. & Teeuw, A. (2006). Three Old Sundanese Poems. Leiden: KITLV Press. (secondary)