Sidaba Mapu
{{Short description|Ancient Meitei God}}
{{contains special characters|Meitei}}
{{infobox deity
| type = Meitei
| name = Sidaba Mapu
| deity_of =
| other_names = Supreme God, creator of Universe, sky God, King of the Gods, Atingkok Maru Sidaba,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkMwAQAAIAAJ&q=atingkok+Sidaba|title = Politics, Society, and Cosmology in India's North East|isbn = 978-0-19-564331-2|last1 = Vijaylakshmi Brara|first1 = N.|year = 1998| publisher=Oxford University Press }} Atiya Kuru Sidaba,{{Cite web|url=http://manipuri.itgo.com/the_lais.html#mapu|title = The Manipuri Lais}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.india9.com/i9show/Atiya-Guru-Sidaba-65666.htm|title=Atiya Guru Sidaba in India}} Epuroi Salailen Sidaba, Yaibirel Sidaba{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNmfdAKFpkQC&q=yaibirel+Sidaba&pg=PA237|title=The Religions of India: A Concise Guide to Nine Major Faiths|isbn=9780143415176|last1=Dalal|first1=Roshen|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books India }}
| affiliation = Sanamahism
| abode = Heaven
| mantra = Hayum Sidaba! Salailen Sidaba! {{Manipuri|ꯍꯌꯨꯝ ꯁꯤꯗꯕ! ꯁꯂꯥꯢꯂꯦꯟ ꯁꯤꯗꯕ}}
| weapon = thunderbolt, spear
| texts = * Malem Leishemlol, Malem Chakkhong, Leithak Leikharol
| consort = Leimarel Sidabi and Tampha Lairembi
| children = * Lainingthou Sanamahi
- Pakhangba
- Nongshaba
- Nongthang Leima
- Emoinu
- Irai Leima
- many others
| ethnic_group = Meitei
| norse_equivalent = Odin, Thor
| roman_equivalent = Jupiter
| greek_equivalent = Zeus
| festivals = Lai Haraoba
| member_of = Meitei Guardians of the Directions
| gender = Male
| abodes =
| script = {{Manipuri|ꯁꯤꯗꯕ ꯃꯄꯨ|label=no|p=no}}
| script_name = Meitei
| hinduism_equivalent = Brahma
}}
{{Sanamahism}}
Sidaba Mapu{{Cite journal|last=Ray|first=Sohini|date=2009|title=Writing the Body: Cosmology, Orthography, and Fragments of Modernity in Northeastern India|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25488260|journal=Anthropological Quarterly|volume=82|issue=1|page=141|jstor=25488260|issn=0003-5491}} {{Meitei|ꯁꯤꯗꯕ ꯃꯄꯨ|lit=immortal God}}{{Cite book|last=Suresh Singh|first=Th.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906016706|title=The endless Kabaw Valley: British created vicious cycle of Manipur, Burma and India|publisher=Quills Ink Publishing|year=2014|isbn=978-93-84318-00-0|edition=large print|location=New Delhi, India|pages=9|oclc=906016706}} or Salailel {{Manipuri|ꯁꯂꯥꯢꯂꯦꯜ}}{{cite book |first=Madhab Chandra |last=Goswami |title=Eastern Himalayas: A Study on Anthropology and Tribalism |date=1980 |publisher=Cosmo Publications |location=New Delhi, India |isbn=9780896842625 |page=72 |url={{GBurl|_HmwAAAAIAAJ}} }} is the Supreme god, creator of Universe and the Sky God in Sanamahism, the indigenous religion of Manipur.{{Cite book|last=Parratt|first=Saroj Nalini|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38258174|title=The pleasing of the gods : Meitei Lai Haraoba|date=1997|publisher=Vikas Pub. House|others=John Parratt|isbn=81-259-0416-6|location=New Delhi|oclc=38258174}} According to Meitei mythology, Sidaba Mapu, being the Creator of the Universe, from a philosophical theory known as Leithak Leikharol Nongsemlon and Leisemlon (Leisemlon Ahanpa).{{cite book |first=Moirangthem Kirti |last=Singh |author-link=Moirangthem Kirti Singh |title=Recent Researches in Oriental Indological Studies Including Meiteilogy |date=1998 |publisher=Parimal Publications |location=Delhi, India |page=59 |url={{GBurl|LVpuAAAAMAAJ}} }}
"The typical Manipuri account of creation is set forth in Leithak Leikharol and most of the lores of rituals and physicians"