Okwa
Shilluk · mortal · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Mortal Shilluk king of the foundational southern-lakes region; descended through multiple generations (Kolo → Omaro → Wat Mol → Okwa) from the heavenly-lineage that began with the white cow Dean Aduk's gourd-bearing. Husband of the crocodile-river-goddess Nyakaya by river-capture and high-bride-price; father of the twin demigods Nyikang and Duwat. His disappearance triggered the succession crisis that produced the Nyikang-migration-north and the founding of the Shilluk Kingdom along the White Nile.
Parentage
- parent: Wat Mol
Children
Relations
- lover: NyakayaHofmayr Die Schilluk (primary)
- father of: NyikangHofmayr Die Schilluk (primary)
- father of: DuwatHofmayr Die Schilluk (primary)
- father of: GiloHalf-brother of Nyikang through their shared father Okwa; Gilo founded the Anuak people through the canonical Shilluk-Anuak fission-narrative.pachodo.org Collo-history compilation; Encyclopedia.com Shilluk entry citing Evans-Pritchard 1948 (primary)
- lover: OngwakReciprocal of shilluk_ongwak.lover (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)