He begged for mercy from a dozen tribal deities, great and small.

"We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities."

However, they have their own tribal deity known as Dih.

We ran through the pantheon and couldn't even make a start on the Polynesian tribal deities without a single degree in anthropology amongst us.

They are Hindus, but have no particular tribal deity.

They are exclusively Hindu and their tribal deity known as Ghatmata.

They are a Hindu community, and their tribal deity is Chamunda.

Although the Musahar are Hindu, they believe in a number of tribal deities.

Scholars explain this in terms of Narasimha's association with wooden posts representing tribal deities.