Sinlap
The sinlap are the kindly sky nats of Burmese tradition — givers of wisdom, worshipped once a year by village chiefs, and asking no sacrifice.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition
- Region
- Southeast Asia (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Land-Shapers
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Utility powers
- Knowledge bestowal
why
Within that crowded system the sinlap hold one of the gentlest portfolios on record: they are the givers of wisdom, sky spirits who bestow insight, and they are counted among the nats generally beneficial toward humankind.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Wise Old Man carries both readings
2 citations
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Sinlap."
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Sinlap."