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| God name "Jok" | African | Creator god. A generic term employed by a large number of tribes. Generally the jok is represented by a totem and also has an animal name. The Acholi in Uganda perceive jok to live in caves to which they deliver food and drink offerings. For the Shilluk in Sudan, Jwok created mankind from river clay.... |
| Goddess name "Buk" | Neur / Sudan | The goddess of rivers & streams |
| Goddess name "Deng" | Nuer / Dinka / Sudan | sky god. Considered to be a foreign deity in the Nuer pantheon and a bringer of disease. His daughter is the moon goddess. In Dinka religion he is a storm and fertility god bringing lightning and Rain.... |
| Goddess name "Buk" | Nuer / Sudan | River goddess. A guardian against attack by crocodiles, she is invoked by the sacrifice of a goat. Known as the daughter of the fireflies.... |
| God name "Col (black one)" | Nuer / Sudan | Rain god. He brings Rain and thunderstorms. Souls of people killed by lightning have been described as colwic. Also Chol.... |
| Spirit name "Kwoith" | Nuer / Sudan | Creator god. The Nuer people have been affected by the expansion of Islam, and probably by Christianity, and recognize a supreme deity, or spiritual being, responsible for all creation. One of his epithets is Tutgar, meaning strong and without limit.... |
| God name "Rang" | Nuer / Sudan | God of hunting. The rays of the Sun are his flaming spears. Also Garang.... |
| God name "Wiu" | Nuer / Sudan | God of war. The word means spear.... |
| God name "Col/ Chol" | Nuer / Sudan | A Rain & thunderstorms god |
| Goddess name "Diang" | Shilluk / Sudan | cow goddess. Living along the west bank of the Nile, the Shilluk perceive Diang as the consort of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess NYAKAYA. Thus the three main elements of Shilluk life are contained in their religious beginningsmen (sky), cows (earth) and crocodiles (water).... |
| Goddess name "Nyakaya" | Shilluk / Sudan | Crocodile goddess. A deity resid ing in the Nile, she is the consort of Okwa and the mother of the first Shilluk king. Shilluks continue to sacrifice to Nyakaya.... |
| Goddess name "Abuk" | Sudan | The first woman and patron goddess of women and gardens. south Sudan |
| Goddess name "Annallja Tu Bari" | Sudan | Goddess of sexual desire. Sudan |
| God name "Apedemak" | Sudan | God of war. Depicted with a lion's head and a human body. The elephant and cattle were sacred to him. Sudan |
| Goddess name "Buk Neur" | Sudan | Goddess of rivers and streams Sudan |
| Goddess name "Candit" | Sudan | The goddess of rivers and streams and the source of life. Sudan |
| God name "Col" | Sudan | Rain and thunderstorms god Sudan |
| God name "Deng" | Sudan | God of Rain. Dinka, Sudan |
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