Edo (people)
The Edo are a West African people in Nigeria who speak the Edo language and some languages closely related to it.
The Edo are also known as "Bini" and are the descendants of the founders of the once powerful kingdom of Benin . They developed their own type of weapon, the Benin sword .
About 2.7 million people belong to the Edo ethnic group. Their languages form the group of edoid languages within the Niger-Congo languages . The Edo live in the plateaus in central Nigeria, in the state of Edo .
religion
In the traditional Edo religion, in addition to the human world, there is an invisible world of supernatural beings that affect the former. Rituals are held in places where these worlds meet. Osanobua, king of the spirit world, was the creator of these worlds and the first humans. His son Olokun is ruler of the water and responsible for the prosperity and fertility of his human followers. Another son is Ogun, patron god of metal workers.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Paula Ben-Amos, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan: Edo Religion . In: Lindsay Jones: Encyclopedia of Religion. Thomson-Gale, 2005. ISBN 0-02-865997-X