Adroa, the distant and transcendent aspect of divinity, and Adro, its immanent and immediate aspect present in streams, groves and the ordinary world, together forming the single divinity of Lugbara religion among the Lugbara of northwestern Uganda and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This pairing of a remote and a near divine aspect, rather than a family of separate gods, was documented by mid twentieth century British social anthropology as a structural feature distinguishing Lugbara belief from many of its Nilotic and Central Sudanic neighbours.
Facts
Structure
Structure of the PantheonA supreme creator above a working order of intermediary powers 1 Divine HeadshipA supreme creator who withdrew from active rule and receives little direct cult 1 Succession Between Divine GenerationsOne divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded 1 Attestation
Era of AttestationHeld from the beginning in the tradition's own terms; documented in the outside record from the 20th century 1 Veneration TodayActively venerated in a living tradition 1 Cult
Principal Cult CentreNo single centre. The orijo, the ghost shrine of each lineage, stands at the compound of its elder 1 Organisation
Membership of the PantheonEvery place, clan and lineage adds its own 1 How Mortals Enter the PantheonAncestors and founders become objects of cult 1 Sources
Primary SourceOral tradition held within Lugbara lineages, with the ethnography of John Middleton published in 1960 1 Connections
Associated With
This source names Republic of the Congo directly: "Uganda and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Its own cited description places the Lugbara among Uganda and the Congo; Uganda is the one of the two with an unambiguous page of its own here.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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