Panikkia Yaka
Vedda · numen · Vedda traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Panikkia Yaka is held to be the spirit of a long-dead Vedda headman who in life was especially skilled in the hunting of buffalo and elephant; after death he was numbered among the yaku invoked for prowess against such large and dangerous game.
Domains
- the hunt
Powers
- grants prowess against buffalo and elephant
Sources
- Panikkia Yaka is the spirit of a long-dead Vedda chief especially skilled in hunting buffalo and elephant.: Seligmann & Seligmann, The Veddas (1911), ch. VII (primary)