Aridon is the Urhobo divinity of memory and remembrance and the muse of poets, central to the Udje dance-song tradition of the Agbon and neighbouring Urhobo clans. A poet or singer pays tribute to Aridon at the very opening of a performance, for the god is held to supply both the inspiration to compose and the retentive memory to deliver long satirical songs faultlessly before a critical audience. In the ritual transfer of his power a medicine man pricks the seeker's tongue nine times, the final stroke sealed with the mystical invocation rhi rhi rhiri. The poet and scholar Tanure Ojaide, who transcribed and theorised the Udje corpus, regards his own art as a continuation of Aridon's gift to the Urhobo griots of old. Aridon is closely paired with Uhaghwa, the divinity of performance, the two sometimes treated as interchangeable aspects of a single poetic principle.