the Sun
Lotuko · numen · Lotuko traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The sun is recognised by the Lotuko as a power of the sky, the giver of daylight and of the fierce heat of the dry season that stands against the life-bringing rain. It belongs conceptually to the celestial sphere over which Ajok presides rather than forming a cult of its own, and, like the moon, it lacks an elaborated narrative in the recorded Otuho tradition. Its significance is felt chiefly in the rhythm of a year divided between drought and rain, the axis around which the community's ritual concern with the weather revolves.
Domains
- sun and heat
Powers
- gives daylight and the burning heat of the dry season
Sources
- The sun is acknowledged in Lotuko cosmology as a celestial power belonging to the sky domain of the high god, associated with daylight and the dry-season heat, but it is not the focus of a distinct cult.: Seligman, C. G., and Brenda Z. Seligman. Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. (primary)