Doying Bote is the deity of wisdom and knowledge in the religion of the Tani peoples, more fully described as the god of humans, of stories and of wisdom. He belongs to the bote class of benevolent male tutelary deities and is reckoned among the chief gods of the Donyi-Polo pantheon together with the Sun-Moon Donyi-Polo, the grain-goddess Kine Nane and the animal-lord Dadi Bote. In the institutionalized worship developed at Pasighat from the late 1980s he was among the first deities given anthropomorphic form, his image set beside that of Donyi-Polo on the altar. In myth he is one of the powers whose counsel the ancestor Abotani secures in his contest with the Epom.