# data[].attributes.body
Efuru has the ability to be happy without a child because she is so similar to Uhamiri.

# data[].attributes.headline
"She was happy, she was wealthy. She was beautiful. She gave women beauty and wealth but she had no child. She had never experienced the joy of motherhood. Why then did the women worship her?"

# data[].attributes.subject
"She was happy, she was wealthy. She was beautiful. She gave women beauty and wealth but she had no child. She had never experienced the joy of motherhood. Why then did the women worship her?"

# data[].attributes.body
A follower of Uhamiri can either have riches or have children.

# data[].attributes.headline
Efuru receives what she already has: wealth and her good looks.

# data[].attributes.subject
Efuru receives what she already has: wealth and her good looks.

# data[].attributes.body
Followers can sacrifice white fowl on Orie day or white sheep if they're feeling particularly good.  They must buy an earthenware pot, fill it with water from the lake, and place it in their room covered with a white cloth. But above all, they must stay holy.

# data[].attributes.body
Followers must not fish on this day and must discourage others from fishing. They cannot eat yams on this day, nor can they sleep with their husbands. They must boil, roast, or fry plantains on this day. And they must wear white to bed.

# data[].attributes.body
Efuru's mother also became increasingly successful, but had no more children.

# data[].attributes.body
Women must choose to have more wealth or to have children. Uhamiri does not grant them both.

# data[].attributes.body
Many sources say that her mother could not have been a follower of Uhamiri because she had a child. However, it is stated that there was another Igbo woman, Ogini, who had a child prior to becoming a follower of Uhamiri and another after becoming a follower.

# data[].attributes.body
Uhamiri is strictly the blue lake goddess. The River deity is called Okita.

# data[].attributes.body
She is a water goddess who, in Efuru, grants her worshipers wealth and power, but not children. She is barren herself and therefore cannot give people children.

# data[].attributes.body
The Igbo people are traditionally polytheistic. However, they are mostly Christian now.