Oreame

Oreame is arguably the most powerful presence in the Ozidi Saga, a witch and mistress of medicines who is the mother of Orea and the maternal grandmother of the hero. She engineers Ozidi's fortification, summoning smiths and musicians from the earth, procuring charms, and flying beside him to revive and prod him through combat after combat. Scholars read her as the embodiment of fate and driving conscience in the epic. She meets her end when, in the delirium of Ozidi's greatest fights, the hero cuts her down by accident.

Children

• Orea

Domains

• witchcraft
• fate

Powers

• to fly through the air to aid the hero in battle
• to bind rivers and work war-medicine by her words

Relations

• mother of: OreaMother of Orea and thus maternal grandmother of the hero Ozidi.Clark, J. P. The Ozidi Saga. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press & Oxford University Press, 1977. (secondary)
• companion: Ozidi the YoungerShe raises, arms and accompanies her grandson into every fight as his guiding supernatural power.Okpewho, Isidore. Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. (secondary)

Sources

• Oreame is Ozidi's sorceress maternal grandmother, the supernatural agent who rears, arms and drives the hero and stands as fate and conscience over the epic.: 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)