Represents the owuamapu, the class of Ijaw water-spirits central to Delta cosmology, personified by their chief Adumu (Kalabari Owu). Spirit-class entities are classed as deity per registry rules; sex left unknown because the owu are a collective class with no fixed gender.
Domains
rivers and waters
fertility
Powers
possess and whirl the masked dancers
Sources
P. Amaury Talbot, Tribes of the Niger Delta (Sheldon Press, 1932).
Robin Horton, "The Kalabari World-View," Africa 32 (1962).