Kine Nane (goddess of grain)
Tani · deity · Tani traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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.
Domains
- grain and agriculture
- fertility and prosperity
Powers
- to grant the fertility of grain and a bountiful harvest
Epithets
- Kine NaneClaire S. Scheid, 'The Institutionalization of Tribal Religion: Recasting the Donyi-Polo Movement in Arunachal Pradesh,' Asian Ethnology 75, no. 2 (2016). (secondary)
Sources
- Kine Nane is the Tani (Adi) goddess of grain and crops, invoked for agricultural fertility and prominent in the iconography and festivals of the Donyi-Polo religion.: Claire S. Scheid, 'The Institutionalization of Tribal Religion: Recasting the Donyi-Polo Movement in Arunachal Pradesh,' Asian Ethnology 75, no. 2 (2016). (secondary); Stuart Blackburn, The Sun Rises: A Shaman's Chant, Ritual Exchange and Fertility in the Apatani Valley (Leiden: Brill, 2010). (secondary)