Founding Ancestor of the Tiv
Tiv · mortal · legendary ancestral age · Recorded classification
Eponymous-genealogy progenitor tier: typed mortal (legendary human ancestor, not a god — Tiv reckon descent agnatically from him, not worship). Some traditions give the line as Shon–Takuruku–Awange. His son Tiv gives the people their name.
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Sources
- Takuruku is the apical ancestor of the Tiv in their genealogies; he is the father of Tiv (the eponymous ancestor) and Uke, from whom the two great Tiv divisions descend through Tiv's sons Ipusu and Ichongo.: Akiga. Akiga's Story. Trans. Rupert East. London, 1939. (primary); Bohannan, Laura, and Paul Bohannan. The Tiv of Central Nigeria. London, 1953. (secondary)