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 latin · Adroa (Adro) · cultThe supreme creator-god, transcendent in the sky (Adroa) and immanent on earth (Adro)John Middleton, Lugbara Religion (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: First Man from the SkyJ. Middleton, Lugbara Religion (1960); the transcendent sky-god Adroa as creator of the first man Gborogboro and first woman Meme (secondary)

Sources

• Adroa is the transcendent, remote, good sky aspect of the single Lugbara creator deity, who made the world and then withdrew, approached only through intermediaries.: Middleton, John. Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority among an East African People. London, 1960, pp. 27-30, 252-256. (primary)
• Adroa is pictured as appearing to the dying as a tall white being with only half a body.: Middleton, John. Lugbara Religion. 1960. (primary); "Adroa." The Oxford Dictionary of African Mythology / Oxford Reference. (tertiary)