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Ajok
Ajok is a name associated with traditional religious ideas among the Acholi people of northern Uganda and neighbouring parts of South Sudan. In accounts of Acholi belief, Ajok is often described as a high or supreme divi…
Aigamuxa
Aigamuxa is a monstrous being associated chiefly with Khoekhoe—historically called Khoikhoi—folklore from southern Africa. It is commonly described as a predatory humanoid or ogre whose eyes are located in the soles or i…
Aha-njoku
Aha-njoku is a figure associated with yams, cultivation and agricultural prosperity in some Igbo traditions of southeastern Nigeria. The name is also written Aha Njoku, Ahia Njoku, Njoku Ji or, in related contexts, Ifeji…
Age
Agé is a name associated in some accounts with a Yoruba divinity or spirit of hunting, the forest and wild animals. The figure is not as consistently documented or widely worshipped as major Yoruba òrìṣà such as Ògún, Ọ̀…
Adroanzi
Adroanzi is the name commonly given to a class of spirits in the traditional religious thought of the Lugbara, a people whose communities are found mainly in north-western Uganda and the adjoining north-e eastern Democra…
Adroa
Adroa is a supreme creator deity associated primarily with the religious traditions of the Lugbara people of northwestern Uganda and the adjoining regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lugbara traditions descr…
Adro
Adro is a name associated with the religious traditions of the Lugbara people of north-western Uganda and the adjoining areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In English-language writing, the name may also appear…
Andriambahomanana
Andriambahomanana is a figure associated with Malagasy mythology, the traditional religious and storytelling cultures of Madagascar. He is commonly described in modern summaries as the first human or an early ancestor of…
Achimi
Achimi is an obscure name associated with African mythology in some modern English-language catalogues of gods, spirits and legendary beings. Its identity, cultural origin and traditional role are not securely establishe…
Abuk
Abuk is a female figure in the traditional religious world of the Dinka people of South Sudan. She is commonly described as the first woman, a mother of humanity, and a goddess or sacred ancestral figure associated with …
Abassi
Abassi is a creator and supreme deity associated primarily with the traditional religion of the Efik people of southeastern Nigeria and the adjoining Cross River region. In English-language references, the name is also w…