Chutia

Chutia religion is the folk religion of the Chutia, the Bodo-Kachari people of the kingdom around Sadiya in upper Assam. They worshipped a primordial male deity, Kundi-Mama, and a primordial female deity, Kechai-khaiti, whose worship was officiated by the priestly section later identified as the Deori.

Its rites were tribal-tantric. In the Deo-kuber ceremony, held in the days of the Chutia kings for the welfare of the state, earthen lamps were lit for Kuber and Kundi, and a pair of ducks was sacrificed to the deities Gira-Girasi. Village deities such as Dangoria were honoured at the trees where they were said to dwell.

From the late fourteenth century inscriptions show the kings turning Vaishnava, and a section of the Chutia accepted Hinduism. After the Ahoms absorbed the kingdom in 1523, those who had not were initiated into Ekasarana in the seventeenth century.