Ongwak
Shilluk · numen · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Parentage
- parent: Dunyel JuOkwa
Domains
- rivers and water
Relations
- sibling: NyakayaSister of the crocodile-river-goddess Nyakaya; both daughters of Dunyel JuOkwa.Hofmayr, Die Schilluk (1925) (secondary)
- lover: OkwaTaken with her sister by the king Okwa and given to him by their father at a high bride-price; co-wife alongside Nyakaya.Hofmayr, Die Schilluk (1925) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Hofmayr, Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes (1925) (secondary); Oyler, The Shilluk Belief in the Good Medicine Man (1920) (secondary); Shilluk oral tradition (primary)