Tiv (Nigeria) legendary eponymous ancestor, son of the apical ancestor Takuruku; the forefather who gives the Tiv people their name and father of Ipusu and Ichongo, eponyms of the two great Tiv divisions. Typed mortal (a legendary human ancestor reckoned in agnatic genealogy, not worshipped). Authored to give Takuruku his named son and to seat the Ipusu/Ichongo branching.