Igbo
Kalabari · numen · Kalabari traditional religion; continuing · numen
Igbo is one of the water-people danced by the Ekine society, characterised in his masquerade as a handsome but idle and good-for-nothing aristocrat, a preening dandy among the owu. Each of the water-spirit plays presents a distinct human or animal character, and Igbo supplies the type of the vain highborn man; his name is that of a water-spirit and is not connected with the neighbouring Igbo people. Like his fellow spirits he is entertained in his turn within the fixed order of the Ekine festival cycle.
Parentage
Domains
- water and rivers
- wealth and status
Powers
- parades as a preening highborn dandy