Bilindi Yaka
Vedda · numen · Vedda traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Bilindi Yaka is the constant companion of Kande Yaka in the invocations for game. Vedda narrative makes him the younger brother of the hunter Kande Wanniya: while their parents were away hunting, the infant Bilindi cried without ceasing, and Kande, unable to quiet him, threw the child to the ground and killed him, so that the two brothers became yaku together. At some settlements the pair were invoked without the fraternal legend being remembered, Kande Yaka simply being reckoned greater than all other yaku.
Domains
- the hunt
Powers
- grants game alongside Kande Yaka
Relations
- sibling: Kande YakaYounger brother of Kande Wanniya; killed as an infant.Seligmann (1911) and Kataragama/Roar Media accounts of Kande Wanniya killing the infant Bilindi (secondary)
Sources
- Bilindi Yaka is invoked together with Kande Yaka to ensure success in hunting.: Seligmann & Seligmann, The Veddas (1911), ch. IX (primary)
- In Vedda legend he was the infant brother of the hunter Kande Wanniya, who, unable to quiet his crying while their parents hunted, dashed him to the ground and killed him, so that both became yaku.: Roar Media, 'Kataragama Devale and the Story of Sri Lanka's Warrior God'; Seligmann (1911) (secondary)