Ala

Earth goddess; highest alusi, guardian of morality, fertility and the dead.

Parentage

• parent: Chukwu

Domains

• earth
• fertility
• morality law
• the dead

Powers

• Enforce custom and judge moral abominations
• Make the soil, crops, and women fruitful
• Receive the dead into her womb the earth

Epithets

• Ala latin · Ala (Ani)The Earth, mother and queen, into whose 'lap' the dead return; keeper of omenala (the law of the land)Meek, C. K. Law and Authority in a Nigerian Tribe. Oxford University Press, 1937. (ethnography); Talbot, P. Amaury. The Peoples of Southern Nigeria. Oxford University Press, 1926, vol. II. (ethnography)

Relations

• sibling: AgwuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: AmadiohaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: AnyanwuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: IdemiliFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: IgweFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Idowu, African Traditional Religion: A Definition (1973) (secondary)
• role: Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)