You are here:

1. » Home
2. » Areas
3. » Mythology
4. » Africa
5. » African mythology
6. » Xu

Cite/print/rate article
Send comment    References

by Dr Harald Fuchs

The benevolent and all-powerful supreme being and sky god to whom the souls of the dead go. He "summons the magicians to their profession, and gives them supernatural powers." He provides the rain and is invoked in illness, before hunting and before traveling.