First Woman Who Bore the Animals
Lugbara · demigod · mythic age · Recorded classification
Progenitor tier: typed demigod (first woman). Name glossed 'the person who came alone'. Paired with Gborogboro; their later descendants produce the hero-ancestors Jaki and Dribidu.
Parentage
- parent: Transcendent Sky Creator
Domains
- human origins
- origin of animals
Powers
- brings forth the wild animals from her womb
Epithets
- Meme the person who came aloneWikipedia, 'Gborogboro and Meme' (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: First Man from the SkyFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Transcendent Sky Creator) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- Meme is the first woman in Lugbara myth, from whose womb the wild animals and then the first human twins were born.: Middleton, John. Lugbara Religion. London, 1960, pp. 231-233. (primary); "Gborogboro and Meme." Oxford Reference. (tertiary)