Supreme God
Ibibio · deity · primordial · deity
Supreme sky-god and creator of the Ibibio and Efik of the Cross River. Foregrounded with his wife Atai as the origin-of-death narrative: his fear of rivalry leads to the prohibitions whose breaking brings mortality into the world. Classed as deity.
Domains
- creation
- sky
- death
Powers
- fashion the first man and woman
- impose the prohibitions on farming and procreation
Epithets
- Abasi
Relations
- spouse: Death-Bringer
Sources
- P. Amaury Talbot, Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe (Macmillan, 1923).
- Recorded Efik/Ibibio creation myth of Abasi and Atai.