Lightning

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

• River Mother of the Niger

Domains

• lightning
• wisdom

Powers

• to flash red lightning across the storm
• wield the lightning and (in some accounts) wisdom

Epithets

• Cirey

Relations

• sibling: Thunder

Sources

• Paul Stoller, Fusion of the Worlds (1989)
• Jean Rouch, La religion et la magie songhay (1960/1989)