Egli-Enyanwu, also recorded as Egba-Enyanwu, is the sun-goddess of the Idoma, named among the divinities of their traditional religion alongside the guardian-spirit Ejembi, the water-spirits Anjenu and the personal soul-deity Owo, all ranking below the transcendent supreme being Owoicho. Her name preserves the widespread Niger-Benue solar term enyanwu, cognate with the Igbo sun-deity Anyanwu (anya-anwu, 'the eye of the sun'), portraying the sun as the bright eye of heaven. As the deified sun she personifies the light and warmth on which the farming and hunting life of the Benue valley depends. The documentary record for her is comparatively slight beside the great earth- and ancestor-cults: she is securely attested as a named member of the Idoma pantheon, but ethnographers preserve far less of her dedicated ritual than of Aje or the Alekwu.