Ajok

The Ajok religion is the traditional faith of the Otuho, or Lotuko, a Nilotic people of the Imatong mountains in what is now South Sudan. It is a religion of nature and ancestor worship. Its chief god is Ajok, who made humans in his own image. He is kind to those who pray and offer sacrifices, though he can be angered.

Myth explains how death became permanent: Ajok revived a woman's dead child at her prayer, but her husband, enraged, killed the child again, and Ajok swore never to raise an Otuho from death again and left the earth. The Otuho say the spirits of the dead plead with Ajok on behalf of the living when rain falls.