Chukwu
Igbo · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Igbo supreme creator and high God; genderless source of all spirits.
Children
Domains
- creation
- supreme being
Powers
- Create the world and originate all lesser spirits
- Sustain and provide for all creation
- Assign each person their chi and destiny
Epithets
- Chukwu Okike The Great God who creates / Creator-GodIsichei, Elizabeth. A History of the Igbo People. Macmillan, 1976. (ethnography); Talbot, P. Amaury. The Peoples of Southern Nigeria. Oxford University Press, 1926, vol. II. (ethnography)
- Chineke The Chi that creates / God who shares-out and createsArinze, Francis A. Sacrifice in Ibo Religion. Ibadan University Press, 1970. (ethnography)
- Chukwu Abịama The Great God of the Aro oracle (Ibini Ukpabi at Arochukwu)Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of the Igbo People. Macmillan, 1976, on the Aro Chukwu oracle. (ethnography)
Relations
- ancestor of: AlaSupreme creator and source of the Alusi spirits; Ala the earth-goddess is among his offspring (parentage encoded on Ala's record).Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981), on Chukwu as source of the Alusi (secondary)
- ancestor of: AmadiohaThunder-god Amadioha among Chukwu's emanated Alusi.Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)
- ancestor of: AnyanwuSun-deity Anyanwu among Chukwu's offspring.Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)
- ancestor of: IdemiliWater-deity Idemili among Chukwu's offspring.Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)
- ancestor of: IgweSky-deity Igwe among Chukwu's offspring.Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)
- ancestor of: AgwuDivination-deity Agwu among Chukwu's offspring.Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Idowu, African Traditional Religion: A Definition (1973) (secondary)
- role: Metuh, God and Man in African Religion (1981) (secondary)