Pantheon
A pantheon is a tradition’s collective deities, often ranked by function; Igbo sources describe one hierarchy, while Mesopotamia’s long multicultural history resists any single roster.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Concept
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Nat is Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition
why
In Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition, the Nats are a pantheon of spirits venerated alongside Theravada Buddhism, most famously codified as the Thirty-Seven Nats presiding from Mount Popa.