the Old Woman Who Sought God

An unnamed mortal protagonist of the canonical Tonga/Ila mortality myth (the inverse of the creator's ascent: a human trying and failing to climb up to the sky-god). Recorded with no personal name in Smith & Dale.

Domains

• mortality grief

Powers

• build a tower of trees to climb to God

Relations

• enemy: the Besetting Rain-Giver

Sources

• Smith, E. W. & Dale, A. M. (1920). The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, 2 vols. London: Macmillan.