Supreme creator deity recorded among the eastern/Kalabari and Delta Ijaw, where the creator power is often named Tamuno (with the form Temearau emphasising the feminine 'Mother-Maker'). Overlaps in role with Woyengi; treated here as a distinct attested name within the same tradition. Classed as deity.
Domains
creation
sky
Powers
fix the allotted span of each life
create all things, partly identified with the sky
give each person a spiritual double (teme) and appoint the destiny chosen before birth
Epithets
Tamarau
Sources
P. Amaury Talbot, Tribes of the Niger Delta (Sheldon Press, 1932).