The Codex · Akala glossary
Ala
Tier 3Ala is the conception of material existence in its totality: mother nature. She is represented as feminine and is often depicted feeding both humans and animals from her breasts. Sometimes she is also represented as a python, and in many Ogbi kingdoms, it is forbidden to kill one.
The word Ala is derived from the word for ground, or earth.
The cosmology behind the name
Ala / Ani / Ana / Ali
Deities & Spirits · T1
Earth goddess; mother, guardian and judge of living and dead; source of reincarnation, justice, authority, righteousness; wife of Chukwu; her symbol the lozenge (Omenka's founding dream). Land itself is sacred and self-avenging.
Read it in the Odinani deck →Where else Ala is spoken
In the novel · 14
- Once Upon A Morning Hunt
- Do Pig-Men Dream?
- To Name A Dream
- Alusi Ikenga
- Spells and Language
- In the Shadow of Fear
- The Test of Manhood
- The Grey Wedding Pt. 2
- Anyi
- There Was A Kingdom
- Trapped body, Free mind
- The Hour of Judgment
- On The Road Back
- Kill Now, Die Later
In the Odinani deck · 7