Orea
Ijaw · mortal · mythic age · Recorded classification
Orea is the hero's mother and the human link between Ozidi and his sorceress grandmother Oreame. Pregnant when her husband is killed, she retreats to Oreame's town and there gives birth to the boy who will avenge his father. During the visitation of Engarando the Smallpox King she calls on Tamara, the Ijaw supreme deity, to shield her son, and the plague-spirit departs Orua.
Parentage
- parent: Oreame
Children
Domains
- motherhood
Relations
- spouse: Ozidi the ElderWife of Ozidi the Elder, widowed by his assassination.Clark, J. P. The Ozidi Saga. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press & Oxford University Press, 1977. (secondary)
- mother of: Ozidi the YoungerMother of the hero Ozidi, whom she bears standing after her husband's death.Clark, J. P. The Ozidi Saga. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press & Oxford University Press, 1977. (secondary)
- subordinate to: MakerIn the episode of the Smallpox King she invokes Tamara (the supreme creator Tamuno) to save her son and drive the plague-spirit from Orua.Okpewho, Isidore. "Performance and Plot in The Ozidi Saga." Oral Tradition 19, no. 1 (2004): 63-95. (secondary)
Sources
- Orea is Ozidi's mother, daughter of the witch Oreame and widow of Ozidi the Elder, who bears and protects the hero.: Clark, J. P. The Ozidi Saga. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press & Oxford University Press, 1977. (secondary); Okpewho, Isidore. Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. (secondary)