1. Should not marry or get married to a relative of same sub-clan. Marriage is a voluntary union of two consenting adults of opposite gender.
2. Every Luo must respect the elder person.
3. Do not kill a python snake or tortoise (they are used by witches as charms, sacrifice, (sihoho).
4. Do not eat crocodiles, leopards, cheetah, hyena, snakes, lizards, frogs, tortoise, monkeys, baboons, warthog, jackal, domestic dogs, crane birds, hornbill, eagle, crow, vultures, white ants (aming’).
5. Wild birds eaten are quill birds (aluru) and Guinea fowl (awendo).
6. Succession is by eldest son, not age. (wuoyi makayo).
7. Luo are primogeniture by customs.
8. Tattooing and tribal birth marks are occasionally carried out as evidence of affinity to both gender for protection from evil spirits.
9. Women do not eat cooked chicken gizzards. These are preserves for the elder male at a meal.
10.Twins are forbidden from attending funeral of the other lest the live one die.
Source: Mrs. Leonida Okere Makaya (1927-2025) at Gem Muhanda
