Amadioha

Male god of thunder and lightning; avenger of injustice, associated with the sky.

Parentage

• parent: Chukwu

Domains

• thunder lightning
• justice

Powers

• Strike oppressors and liars with lightning
• Speak and reveal his will through thunder

Epithets

• Kamalu latin · Kamalu (Kamanu)The thunderer (Ngwa/Owerri appellation of the lightning-god)Talbot, P. Amaury. The Peoples of Southern Nigeria. Oxford University Press, 1926, vol. II. (ethnography)
• Igwekala latin · Igwe-ka-AlaThe Sky-is-greater-than-the-Earth (his oracular title; the Umunoha sky-oracle)Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of the Igbo People. Macmillan, 1976. (ethnography)

Relations

• sibling: AgwuFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Chukwu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: AlaFull 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: Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)