Luanda Magere

Luo culture-hero / invincible warrior of the Kano plains (Kisumu region), traditionally placed in the 18th century. The shrine-stone at Sidho near Awasi remains a revered site. Classified demigod (culture-hero tier); the supernatural invulnerability and stone-transformation justify the tier.

Domains

• war

Powers

• turn aside weapons with a body of stone

Sources

• Luanda Magere was a legendary stone-bodied Luo warrior of the Sidho/Kano area who could not be wounded except through his shadow; betrayed by his Nandi (Lang'o) wife, he was speared in the shadow and turned to stone near the River Nyando.: Ogot, B. A. (1967). History of the Southern Luo, Volume I: Migration and Settlement. Nairobi: East African Publishing House. (reference); Wikipedia, 'Luanda Magere'. (reference)