The tutelary bush/leopard spirit of the Ekpe (Mgbe) society of the Cross River. As a spirit-being it is classed as deity per registry rules, though it is bound up with the human secret society that channels its authority; the nsibidi sign-system is associated with it.
Domains
law and justice
the wilderness
Powers
enforce the will of the ancestors on the living
Sources
P. Amaury Talbot, Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe (Macmillan, 1923).