Otiose Sky Creator

Tiv high god, a deus otiosus; the name simply means 'sky'. The English descriptor leads name.primary, native term in `term`. Typed deity (creator).

Children

• Mystical Forces That Govern the World

Domains

• creation
• sky

Powers

• creates the world and then takes no further interest in it
• sets the akombo forces in the sky to regulate the world
• roars and flashes as thunder and lightning

Epithets

• Aondo
• Aôndo kume

Relations

• ancestor of: Mystical Forces That Govern the World

Sources

• Bohannan, Paul, and Laura Bohannan. The Tiv of Central Nigeria. London: International African Institute, 1953, pp. 84-86.
• Downes, Rupert M. Tiv Religion. Ibadan, 1971.
• Akiga. Akiga's Story. Trans. Rupert East. London, 1939.
• Wegh, Shagbaor F. Between Continuity and Change: Tiv Concept of Tradition and Modernity. Lagos: OVC, 1998.