Ozidi the Elder
Ijaw · mortal · mythic age · mortal
Ozidi the Elder is the father of the hero and the man whose death the epic exists to avenge. A renowned fighter of Orua, he is drawn into a fatal quarrel when his intellectually disabled brother Temugedege is made king and demands the tributes due to a monarch; resentful rival warriors kill Ozidi the Elder rather than honour the claim. His pregnant widow withdraws to her mother's town, where the posthumous hero is born.
Children
Domains
- warfare
Powers
- to lead the war-host of Orua
Relations
- sibling: Temugedege
- spouse: Orea
- father of: Ozidi the Younger
Sources
- Clark, J. P. The Ozidi Saga. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press & Oxford University Press, 1977.
- Okpewho, Isidore. "Performance and Plot in The Ozidi Saga." Oral Tradition 19, no. 1 (2004): 63-95.