Mezgana is the supreme being of the traditional Qemant (Kemant) religion of North Gondar, a Central Cushitic faith of the western Agaw that the ethnographer Frederick Gamst described as 'pagan-Hebraic'. Conceived as an eternal sky-spirit who is the omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent first cause of creation, he is named Mezgana and addressed in prayer as Adara ('God') or Yeadara ('my God'). Worship is conducted in the open at hilltop sacred groves served by the wambar high priest, where the community offers a white bull or white sheep to the male high god of the sky. Mezgana may be approached directly or through the holy-one intermediaries, the culture-heroes who stand between humans and the creator. He has no consort or divine kin in the tradition, standing alone above the lesser tree- and grove-spirits.