This excerpt from the Ozidi Saga extols the power of women, as Ozidi's mother, Oreame, seeks to protect her young son from Azeza arid his allies, who have killed Ozidi's father. Ozidi's grandmother also protects him by various methods, and God (Tamara in Ijo language) is also female.

Azeza arose once more.
"I am Azeza! Day has broken again!
Whatever day has broken is the day.
All night I exercised myself and now it is dawn.
This is the day I shall do battle.
Yes, Ozidi after all is but a boy.
His father himself fought with us until he tired, and did us no harm.
And when at that place we killed his father, I myself with my stick was first to hit him over the head, before the others fell on him.
Others were all scared of him...