Abuk

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Abuk is the first woman in the myths of the Dinka and Nuer people of Sudan. The Nuer call her Buk.[1] She is the only well-known female deity of the Dinka.[2] She is also the patron goddess of women as well as gardens. Her emblem is a small snake. She is the mother of the god of rain and fertility (Danka).

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  1. ^ Beswick, Stephanie (2004). Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan. Boydell & Brewer, 128. ISBN 1580461514. 
  2. ^ Lienhardt, Godfrey (1987). Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka. Oxford University Press, 89. ISBN 0198234058. 

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