Adro Creates Nonhuman Twins (Lugbara/DRCongo, Sudan, Uganda)
Adro, the creator, long ago created the world and men. He is the ultimate source of all power and of the moral order. The divinity is conceived of in two aspects: he is Adro (God on earth, immanent), close to mankind, and Adroa or Adronga (God in the sky, transcendent), remote from mankind. Adro made the world; and the hero-ancestors and their descendants, the ancestors, formed Lugbara society, in the shape that it has had until now and that it should continue to have in the future. God's power may be manifested in many ways, in natural phenomena such as lightning and in the form of spirits that are given shrines by humans. ...