Historical PeriodEra
Pre-Vedic antiquity
3000 BCEPre-Vedic antiquityPresent
Sacred Facts · At a Glance
- Gender
- female
- Sacred Colours
- redturmeric-yellow
- Sacred Offerings
- rice beer · fowl · flowers · incense
Primary Scriptures
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Santeri
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.
Significance
Sāntērī — anthill-goddess of the Konkan villages
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
- Offerings
- rice beerfowlflowersincense
- Sacred colours
- redturmeric-yellow
🛕 Principal Temples
- Principal shrine of SanteriPre-Vedic antiquity📍 pan-Konkan, South Goa, Goa, IndiaSāntērī — anthill-goddess of the Konkan villages
🎊 Festivals
- Annual community festivalDate varies by tribe/region
Sources & provenance
🎓 2 Scholarly
- 🎓Scholarly sourceBookTribes and Castes of Goa
- 🎓Scholarly sourceBookGoa State Gazetteer (post-1947)