Ommuá Tao
Ommuá tao is the Bubi spirit of the deceased legal father and the most venerated of the immediate ancestors. In Bubi kinship, a woman may be given a spirit husband (mochucu) chosen by oracle; this spirit is the legal father of her children and gives them their patriclan. The child's ritual obligations to this father-spirit culminate in offerings of yams during the annual yam cycle. 'Ommuá' is a respectful term for a deceased father, while 'tao' refers to the ancestors who were heads of patriclan lineages. Ommuá tao belongs to the wider category of barimó ancestor spirits, which are spirits of