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Encyclopedia > Dinka mythology

The Dinka or Jieng/Muonyjang are a Nilotic ethnic group in the south of Sudan. The Dinka are a group of tribes of south Sudan, inhabiting the swamplands of the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin, Jonglei and parts of southern Kordufan and Upper Nile regions. ...


The supreme, creator god is Nhialic(also Jaak, Juong, Dyokin other Nilotic groups such as the Nuer and Shilluk); he is present in all of creation, and controls the destinies of every human, plant and animal on Earth. The term "Jok" also refers to a group of ancestral spirits. Look up Jacob in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...


Deng or Dengdit is the sky god of rain and fertility empowered by Nhialic who is the supreme being of all gods. Deng's mother is Abuk, the patron goddess of gardening and all women, represented by a snake(. Garang is believed or assumed by some Dinka as the suppressed god below Deng. Whose spirits can influent mostly Dinka women and seldomly men to scream. 59.100.0.181 14:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Abuk is the first woman in the mythos of the Dinka. ...


Nhialic is the god of the sky and rain, and the ruler of all the spirits. On the other hands, the Dinka people respects African puff adders because of divinities found in the snakes. They commonly respected snakes are Atemyath, Biar keroor, and Maluang. These snakes are given local made molten cheese attracted from the cow to make them happy and appeasing. They are released into the forest after being appeased. In fact, Killing these snakes is believed to cause omens to the community or the person. With assumption that the spirits may strike the killer. The word yath in Dinka, is respects to objects of divine qualities that can be worshipped. In Dinka Bor, for instance Atemyath is widely beliefs by Tich section. Moreover, some of the snakes are names derived basically due to influences on some sections. The shrines are most for ritual sacrifies and are known as Luek ke yath. Some Luek remains in the heartland south of Wangklei, and likely destroyed during the war and coming of christainity. However, the Dinka people beliefs in snakes can be linked to snakes divines found in Abuk goddess represented by snake.


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