Death-Bringer
Ibibio · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Consort of the supreme god Abasi and the immediate agent of human mortality in Ibibio/Efik cosmology. Foregrounded with Abasi as the origin-of-death narrative. Classed as deity.
Domains
- death
- discord and strife
- divine counsel
Powers
- loose death upon humankind
- intercede with the creator for humankind
Relations
- spouse: Supreme GodReciprocal of ibibio_abasi.spouse — Atai, Abasi's consort, let the first humans settle the earth and sent death and discord to curb their rivalry with the sky-god.Talbot, The Peoples of Southern Nigeria, vol. 2 (1926) (secondary)
Sources
- Atai, wife of Abasi, both wins the first humans the right to live on earth and, when they break Abasi's prohibitions, sends death and discord among them — the Ibibio/Efik origin of mortality.: Recorded Efik/Ibibio creation myth of Abasi and Atai. (encyclopedia); P. Amaury Talbot, Life in Southern Nigeria (Macmillan, 1923). (ethnography)