Tiurakh

Tiurakh (also written Thiorak, Théourakh or Tulrakh) is a lesser divinity of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, regarded as the god of wealth and property. Worshippers seeking riches bring him offerings in the forest, where he is believed to dwell in the tallest trees together with his adversary Takhar, the god of justice and vengeance. The pair were first recorded in detail by nineteenth-century French ethnographers of Senegambia and remain the two most frequently named lesser gods of the Serer pantheon under the supreme being Roog.

Domains

• wealth
• property

Powers

• to grant wealth, goods and material prosperity to his worshippers

Relations

• subordinate to: RoogTiurakh is a lesser god subordinate to the supreme creator Roog, to whom all Serer worship is ultimately addressed.Thiaw, Issa Laye, 'La religiosité des Seereer, avant et pendant leur islamisation', Éthiopiques, no. 54, 1991. (secondary)
• rival: TakharTiurakh, god of wealth, is the traditional adversary of Takhar, god of justice; the two are said to inhabit the tallest trees of the forest.Bérenger-Féraud, L. J. B., Les peuplades de la Sénégambie, Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1879. (secondary)

Sources

• Tiurakh is the Serer god of wealth and property, a lesser divinity dwelling in the tall trees of the forest.: Bérenger-Féraud, L. J. B., Les peuplades de la Sénégambie, Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1879. (secondary); Gravrand, Henry, La civilisation sereer, vol. 2: Pangool, Nouvelles Éditions Africaines du Sénégal, 1990. (secondary)