Historical PeriodEra
Pre-Vedic antiquity
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Deities
Santeri
Sāntērī — anthill-goddess of the Konkan villages
Sāntērī — anthill-goddess of the Konkan villages
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Sāntērī is the principal gramdevī of many Konkan villages — worshipped as an anthill (roen, varul) within a small grove. Her non-iconic form (an anthill, not an image) preserves pre-Brahmanical Dravidian veneration of fertility-mounds.
Sāntērī — anthill-goddess of the Konkan villages
