Transcendent Sky Creator

Adroa (the 'good in the sky', Adro 'ba o'bapiri = 'the creator of men') is the transcendent half of one creator god whose immanent half is Adro. Typed deity (transcendent creator). Documented by John Middleton's 1960 ethnography.

Children

• First Man from the Sky
• First Woman Who Bore the Animals

Domains

• creation
• sky
• moral order

Powers

• creates the world and then withdraws on high
• appears to the dying as a being of half a body

Epithets

• Adroa

Relations

• ancestor of: First Man from the Sky

Sources

• Middleton, John. Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority among an East African People. London, 1960, pp. 27-30, 252-256.
• Middleton, John. Lugbara Religion. 1960.
• "Adroa." The Oxford Dictionary of African Mythology / Oxford Reference.