Adroa Africa God of the Lugbara, whose tribal territories stretch across the border of Zaire and Uganda. He is conceived of in two aspects: as transcendent Adroa, ‘god in the sky’, remote from mankind and onyiru , ‘good’; as immanent Adro, ‘god on earth’, close to mankind and onzi , ‘bad’. The fountainhead of all power and authority, this ambivalent creator deity established the social order through the tribal ancestors, whose ‘words’ represent cutomary law. The relationship between Adroa and the ancestors is obscure, though the Lugbara say: ‘We forget them and send a ram to the mountains.’

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