Lightning
Songhai · deity · Songhay/Zarma oral tradition; living holey cult · deity
Spirit-class figure (a Tooru) entered as a deity. 'Cirey' means 'red' in Songhay, evoking the lightning flash; sources give him alongside/under Dongo. Scholarship: Stoller (1989); Rouch (1960/1989).
Parentage
Domains
- lightning
- wisdom
Powers
- to flash red lightning across the storm
- wield the lightning and (in some accounts) wisdom
Epithets
- Cirey
Relations
- sibling: Thunder