Jok

Although many Lango today are Christians or Muslims, traditional belief still plays a role in religious life. In traditional Lango thought every person has a guardian spirit and a soul, ancestors are honoured, and there is a supreme god, Jok.

Driberg met his name in everyday things:

• the two-mouthed ceremonial pot, the dogaryo, is also called agulu jok, “the pot of god”;
• a bare patch of soil in the grass is a laro jok, “god’s threshing-floor”, and some clans forbid women to walk across one.

Sources: Wikipedia, “Lango people” (CC BY-SA 4.0), reworded; J. H. Driberg, The Lango (1923), pp. 88–89 and 194–199; public domain. Elders are invited to add and correct.