Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ajalamo" | Africa | God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa |
God name "Ajalamo Yoruba" | Africa | God of fetuses. west Africa() / Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ala aka Ale" | Africa | Ana, Ani, Chthonic fertility goddess who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead, which rest in her womb . Ibo Eastern Nigeria, West Africa |
God name "Aondo" | Africa | Creator god who lives in the sky and sends the Sun each morning. Central Nigeria, West Africa |
God name "Eji Ogbe" | Africa | God who is king of the pantheon Africa(west) / Nigeria / Yoruba |
God name "Obumo" | Africa | The thunderer, the principal god and great First Cause. Nigeria, Africa |
"Among the Yoruba" | Africa / Nigeria | Aja also refer to a "wild wind". It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman". The journey supposedly will have a duration of between seven days to three months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run). |
God name "Ebore" | Benin | sky god. Nigeria and Benin |
God name "Esu" | Edo / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa | God of påśśage. A fearsome deity who stands at the gates of the home of the gods holding a set of keys. He is known for his trickery.... |
God name "Abåśśi" | Efik | The creator god of the Nigerian Efik people. On the suggestion of his wife Atai Abåśśi created the first humans; to prevent them from exceed his wisdom, he ordered the first humans to neither procreate nor labor. This prohibition lasted some time, but eventually the first couple did have children and work, for which crime Abåśśi slew them and set their children against each other. |
God name "Olokun" | Fon / Yoruba / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa | God of fresh waters and oceans. The eldest son of the creator god OSANOBUA. He is symbolized in the sacred river Olokun, which runs almost the length of Benin and from the source of which come the souls of unborn children. A girl baby is given a shrine of the god which includes a pot of river water and which she takes with her to her new home when she marries. The god is particularly popular among women and has a cult of priestesses. Olokun is also a guardian deity of mariners.... |
God name "Chiuke" | Ibo / Nigeria, West Africa | sky god. Regarded as a creator god.... |
God name "Ikenga (right forearm)" | Ibo / Nigeria, West Africa | God of fortune. A benevolent deity who guides the hands of mankind. He is depicted wearing a horned headdress, and carrying a sword and a severed head. He is invoked as a household guardian.... |
Goddess name "Ala" | Ibo / eastern Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. A popular deity who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead (which rest in her womb). Her temple is the Mbari which contains a cult statue depicting the goddess seated with a child in her arms and adorned with the crescent moon. She is flanked by attendant deities. She enjoys a profusion of local shrines which are well supplied with votive offerings. Serious crimes including murder are considered to be offenses against her. An annual yam festival is celebrated in her honor. Also Ale, Ana, ANI.... |
God name "Chhene" | Isoko / southern Nigeria, West Africa | Creator god. An abstract being who is embodied by a mediator in the form of a sacred wooden totem, the Oyise. The god has no temples or priests.... |
Goddess name "Ala" | Nigeria | Goddess of fertility, morality and of justice. Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ala Ibo" | Nigeria | Goddess of the earth in its dual aspect of fertility and death. Nigeria |
God name "Aondo Tiv" | Nigeria | The creator god that lives in the sky |