The Otuho are a Nilotic agro-pastoralist population, numbering over half a million. They raise large herds of cattle, sheep and goats and farm sorghum, sesame and ground nuts, among other things, supplemented by fishing and hunting.
They worship Ajok, the supreme deity, who created humans in his own image. A relatively benevolent god, though he can be angered.
“Ajok plays a central role in the Lotuko myth of how death became a permanent state for living beings. It is said that the child of the first woman and man had passed away, and the first woman asked for Ajok’s help to revive the child.
Ajok did so, but the husband of the woman found out about it. The woman had not consulted her husband about her intentions beforehand, so he became angered by what had happened and killed the revived child. Ajok had originally planned to make humans immortal, but after what transpired, he left Earth and declared never to resurrect anyone again, and in this manner, death was said to have become permanent.”
