Obumo

Obumo, often called Abasi Obumo, is the Ibibio god of thunder, glossed by Talbot as 'the Thunderer.' Born of the Great Mother Eka Abasi by her own might, he is at once her son and her consort, and his rites are commonly performed at the holy pools and rocks held to be her earthly manifestations. To the mass of ordinary worshippers, who are not admitted to the esoteric teaching about Eka Abasi, Obumo appears as the chief deity of the tribe, his power made manifest in the crash of storms. He is distinct from the supreme creator Abasi, belonging instead to the older maternal cosmogony centred on Eka Abasi.

Parentage

• parent: Eka Abasi

Domains

• thunder and storms
• sky and weather

Powers

• to hurl thunder and unleash storms
• to reign as chief deity of the common people

Epithets

• Abasi ObumoTalbot, D. Amaury. Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People: The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria. London: Cassell and Company, 1915. (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: Eka AbasiObumo is at once the son and the consort of the Great Mother Eka Abasi, from whom he sprang and whose rites are bound up with his own.Talbot, D. Amaury. Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People: The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria. London: Cassell and Company, 1915. (secondary)

Sources

• Obumo (Abasi Obumo, 'the Thunderer') is the Ibibio god of thunder and storm, son and consort of the Great Mother Eka Abasi, and is regarded by the uninitiated majority as the chief deity of the tribe.: Talbot, P. Amaury. Life in Southern Nigeria: The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. (secondary); Talbot, D. Amaury. Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People: The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria. London: Cassell and Company, 1915. (secondary)