Achu Nyande
Jukun · deity · primordial · deity
Achu Nyande, also rendered Acho wa Nyande, is the Jukun god of rain and of the upper skies. Rain held central importance for the agricultural Jukun of the Benue valley, and the divine king himself was believed to mediate rainfall; Achu Nyande personifies the celestial waters within the sphere of the sky god Chido. Modern studies of Jukun theism list him among the indigenous gods whose cults declined under Christian reconfiguration of the pantheon.
Domains
- rain
Powers
- to send rain from the upper skies upon the fields of the Jukun
Relations
- subordinate to: Sky God