Abasi's Messenger Is a Vulture (Anang/Nigeria)
The supreme god, all knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful, Abasi moves at times from his place in the sky to the earth, where he struggles with evil supernatural beings and is sometimes challenged by ancestral spirits. Spirits touch people more routinely than Abasi. There are guardian spirits, ancestral spirits, and evil beings. Of significance are the invisible nnem, fifty-four spirits who have economic, political, religious, and social functions, and who transport ...