Names and praise-names of Chukwu

| Name | Meaning / role |

|---|---|

| Chukwu / Chi-Ukwu | The Great Chi; the aggregate of all chi |

| Chineke / Chi na Eke | Popularly "God the Creator"; T1 invokes as Okike Chi, Okike Uwa — Sharer that shares Chi, Creator of the world, "Cutter that cuts things and Creator that creates things." (See §3.2 for the T2 Chi-na-Eke duality reading.) |

| Abiama / Abia-Ama | "The Knowledge and Wisdom that reveals Himself." Umeh corrects "God the kind" (Iwuagwu) and "God the Provider" (Isichei) readings: Abia = knowledge/wisdom, Ama = revealer. |

| Olisa / O'sa / Olisa Ebili Uwa | "Olisa the Tide of the Universe" — the invocative force of change-for-the-better; Dibia uses it to turn bad luck to awele (good luck). |

| Eze Onwekodo | The King who owns everybody and everything |

| Obasi di enu / Obasi no n'enu | God high above yet near; cf. the name Chukwunonso ("God stays near"); praise-form Eze-chita-oke-bi-n'enu-ogodo-ya-na-akpu-n'ana — the King living in the heavens while His garments sweep the ground |

| Aka | The Origin, the Antiquity, the First One |

| Aka Ofu (Ora Naabo) | The One Spirit — sacred to the number 1; source and sustainer of all |

| Edumeeme Chukwu | The self-creating, self-acting, self-existing, self-knowing executive principle/power of God — invoked by the Dibia at the right point, time, posture and tone for ogwu and anwansi (magic) |

| Atu | The most ancient Creator-God who creates by word of mouth (= Egyptian Atum/Thoth link, see §5.5) |

| Eze Enu | King of Heaven/the Above (sacrificial name — Aja Eze Enu) |

| Eze-chita-oke-Obia-Oma | The King that brought Oma — see below |