Ori

Ori religion is the ancestor-centred belief of the Madi and the closely related Lugbara, who live in the West Nile lands on the Sudan, Uganda and Congo borders. In the Lugbara record, ori are the ghosts of the patrilineal dead, who are traditionally believed to send sickness to the living when quarrels are left unresolved. A sick person is then assigned an animal, usually a sheep, which is killed after recovery, and its meat is placed at the dead ancestors' shrines before the lineage shares the rest.

Above the ancestors stands the creator god Adroa, a distant sky god, who is also thought to have an earthly aspect. Diviners, oracles and rainmakers served as intermediaries.