Podho

Podho occupies the apex of the standard Luo genealogical recitation as the ancestor who led the eastward movement and fathered Ramogi together with brothers whose names head other lineages. Historians of the Southern Luo treat him as a telescoped, semi-legendary eponym rather than a datable individual, noting that the belief in descent from a single forefather was elaborated in later generations, yet his name anchors the way the Luo narrate their own origins.

Domains

• ancestral lineage

Powers

• to father the ancestral Luo lineages

Relations

• father of: Ramogi Ajwang

Sources

• Bethwell A. Ogot, History of the Southern Luo, Volume I: Migration and Settlement, 1500-1900 (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967).
• William R. Ochieng', An Outline History of Nyanza up to 1914 (Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1974).