Hairy Hero-Ancestor and Rainmaker
Lugbara · demigod · mythic age · demigod
Hero-ancestor / culture-hero tier: typed demigod. Paired with Jaki (who died at Mount Liru); together they are the founding hero-ancestors of the Lugbara who introduced rain-medicine.
Domains
- rainmaking
- founding of clans
- magic medicine
Powers
- calls and controls the rain
- fathers the founders of the present clans
- Receives fire and medicine-knowledge from the woman of the land
- Devours his own children and is driven into exile
Epithets
- Dribidu
- Banyale
Relations
- sibling: Jaki
- descendant of: First Woman Who Bore the Animals