Editing Dinka religion (section)

==Pantheon==
The Dinka have a pantheon of deities,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=Patricia Ann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Qiq4ps_wDIC |title=African Mythology, A to Z |last2=Roberts |first2=Jeremy |date=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-3133-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Jok 2010"/><ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Johnston|first=R. T.|title=The Religious and Spiritual Beliefs of the Bor Dinka|date=1934|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41716073|journal=Sudan Notes and Records|volume=17|issue=1|pages=124–128|jstor=41716073|issn=0375-2984}}</ref> most notable:

* [[Nhialic]], a supreme god<ref name=":02" />
* Du Chie, a creation god, sometimes precursor, other co-creator with Nhialic<ref name=":02" />
* Ayum, goddess of the [[wind]]. She is often referred to as a force that prevents rain from falling.<ref name=":02" />
* Alwet, goddess of the rain.<ref name=":02" />
* Aja.<ref name=":02" />
* Nyanngol,<ref name=":02" /> also known as Nyanwol or Nyancar, a female goddess.<ref>Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961), p. 99 - 100</ref>
* Gerrang,<ref name=":02" /> also known as Garang.<ref>Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961), p. 84 - 88</ref> Johnston (1934) described him as a malicious god who often leads humans to commit sins,<ref name=":02" /> while Lienhardt (1961) portrays him as a healer deity, though Lienhardt also confirms that the Dinka people tend to attribute misfortunes to Garang.<ref>Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961), p. 86</ref>
* Ayak, counterpart to Ayum,<ref name=":02" /> is a female divinity<ref name="LH61">Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961), p. 89 - 90 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7Y4X9kHeU8C&pg=PA89]</ref> who, depending on Dinka country, is regarded as either the mother of Abuk<ref>Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961), p.87 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7Y4X9kHeU8C&pg=PA87]</ref> or the same divinity.<ref name="LH61"/>
* Abum
* [[Abuk|Abuk Dit]], a mother goddess
* [[Deng (god)|Dengdit]] or Deng, is the sky god of rain and fertility.  Deng's mother is [[Abuk]], the patron goddess of gardening and all women, represented by a snake.

The term "Jok" refers to a group of ancestral spirits and patron deities of tribes.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

''Jok'' mean Power<ref name="Lht G"/> (plural: ''jaak''<ref name="Lht G"/>). Lienhardt writes:
:"Divinity and divinities belong to that widest class of ultra-human agency collectively called, in Dinka, ''jok'', Power. ''Jok'' is less specific in connotation than ''nhialic'' or ''yath'', Divinity or a divinity. ''Jok'' as a noun may refer to a particular ultra-human Power.  It has the plural form ''jaak'' when several distinct individual existences of this kind are in mind. It has also, however, like ''yath'', a qualitative sense, indicating the kind and quality of ultra-human power, rather than any particular Power.<ref name="Lht G">Lienhardt, Godfrey, "Divinity and Experience : The Religion of the Dinka: The Religion of the Dinka."  [[Oxford University Press]], UK, (1961), p. 31, {{ISBN|9780191591853}}[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7Y4X9kHeU8C&pg=PA31]</ref>