Gor, nicknamed 'Mahia' after the Dholuo word for magic, was a chief and magician of the Kanyamwa area near the shore of Lake Victoria whose reputation for wonder-working, rainmaking and prophecy made him one of the most celebrated figures of Luo memory. Son of Ogada and heir, by tradition, to the powers of his grandfather Ogalo, he is described as ruling through fear of his sorcery, and stories credit him with foreseeing the arrival of Europeans. Though a historical personage of the recent past, he has passed into legend as an almost superhuman worker of the miraculous, his name later borrowed for Kenya's best-known football club.