Kine Nane (goddess of grain)

Tani · deity · Tani traditional religion; continuing · deity

Kine Nane is the goddess of grain and crops in the religion of the Tani peoples, an earth-and-harvest deity whose blessing secures the fertility of the rice fields. She is one of the principal benevolent deities of the Donyi-Polo pantheon and figures centrally in the agricultural festival cycle, her favour sought at the great Adi festival of Solung. In the anthropomorphic imagery devised for the Donyi-Polo prayer movement she is shown wearing the cane skirt (gale) and holding paddy, and her statue stands with that of Doying Bote on either side of the central image of Donyi-Polo at the Pasighat prayer hall.

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