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[1117] The concept of Mammywata in Flora Nwapa's novels (5630 words) |
 | Customary life in Oguta is based on Omenala, the ancestral rules of the land, the laws of the earth goddess, Ani/Ala, and of the water goddess, Uhammiri. |
| As Oguta kinship is patrilineal, (22) relatives of the husband of a barren wife or a woman who has only daughters or whose children have died encourage and expect the man to marry an additional wife, to ensure that his lineage continues. |
| According to one Oguta myth, a man who had killed the river goddess Abia's favorite animal, the crocodile, in her sacred grove, was instantly killed by a python, for in Oguta the crocodile is another sacred animal that must not be killed or eaten. |
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