Ala

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

Parentage

• 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

Relations

• sibling: Agwu
• sibling: Amadioha
• sibling: Anyanwu
• sibling: Idemili
• sibling: Igwe

Sources

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