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.