Ijaw people conceptualize God as having Feminine Characteristics. Traditional Ijaw societies have given women a higher s0cial, political and economic status fue to the fact that the Supreme creator is seen to possess those attributes peculiar to a woman.

If this is the case, why is only Egbesu mentioned mostly?

Currently reading "The Implications of the Feminization of God among the Ijaw People of Nigeria" by Uzobo Endurance, Ogbanga Mina Margaret and Jack Jackson.
Eye opening

It has been argued that the current status of women stemmed from religion. That is to say religious stratification placed women in their current position of subservient beings to their Male counterpart. Hence, Sarkar (1995:45) stated that 1/2

"However, many people might indulge in tall talk, in no country or age were women given full freedom in religious and social matter as, nor are they given their rights even to this day" 2/2

Wonyinghi: Our mother
Teme arau: she who creates
Ziba arau: she who gives birth
Igina-arau/ogbono-arau/suoarau: creatress who dwells in the firmament.
The feminine conception of God among the ijaw is reflective of the matrilineal system of the Ijaw society.

Temearau is God who lives in the sky: she is woman because it is the woman who bears & produces.

Religiously, women in Ijaw communities are given significant roles to play because of the concept of God being mother. Some popular communal cults have women as their chief priestesses

In some Ijaw communities eg Nembe, decent is mainly reckoned through the mother's lineage. It should be noted, however that the matrilineal descent system does not place women above men in public affairs