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 AjwangThe dominant genealogical tradition names Ramogi among Podho's sons; variant recitations insert an intervening generation, and Ogot stresses that the single-eponym scheme is partly a later systematisation of the migration traditions.Bethwell A. Ogot, History of the Southern Luo, Volume I: Migration and Settlement, 1500-1900 (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967). (secondary); William R. Ochieng', An Outline History of Nyanza up to 1914 (Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1974). (secondary)

Sources

• Podho is the eponymous ancestral progenitor of the Luo in migration tradition, remembered as the father of Ramogi and the head of the genealogy from which the Luo groups descend.: Bethwell A. Ogot, History of the Southern Luo, Volume I: Migration and Settlement, 1500-1900 (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967). (secondary); William R. Ochieng', An Outline History of Nyanza up to 1914 (Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1974). (secondary)