Agadzagadza

Agama lizard.

Agadzagadza is a trickster figure from the mythology of the Bura people, one of the population groups of Nigeria.[1][2][3] He is a male agama lizard[4] and appears as part of an aetiological explanation for the origins of death in their culture.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mshelia, Dr. Ayuba Y. (2014). The story of the origins of the Bura/Pabir people of Northeast Nigeria : language, migrations, the myth of Yamta-ra-wala, social organization and culture. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse. ISBN 978-1-4969-0432-4.
  3. ^ Scheub, Harold (2005). African tales. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 275. ISBN 9780299209438.
  4. ^ Blench, Roger. "A Dictionary of Bura" (PDF) (Draft July 25, 2010 ed.).

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