Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Banga Ngbandi" | Zaire | The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake. Zaire |
God name "Jakomba" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | God of morality. Also known as the god of hearts, he controls human thought. Also Nzakomba.... |
God name "Jakomba Bangala" | Zaire | A god of morality that controls human thought |
God name "Kabunian" | Philippines | Descended from his home in the sky. On earth he married a virtuous maiden named Bangan. She bore him three children. The first was Kabigat, a boy, second was Daungen, a girl. After the birth of the third child, Kabunian had to return to his home in heaven. As a god, he could not continue living indefinitely on earth. Philippines |
Deities name "Libanza" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. One of a pair of supreme deities with his sister / consort Nsongo. He lives at the bottom of the river Congo, traveling the waterways and bringing floods as punishment as well as to generate prosperity. He is regarded as being generally benevolent. Also Ibanza.... |
God name "Libanza Upotos/ Bangala" | Zaire | a creator god |
God name "Lubanga" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | God of health. He is invoked by offerings of beer and his sanctuaries are surrounded by rows of trees.... |
God name "Lubanga Buynyopro" | Uganda | God of health. Uganda |
God name "Lubangala" | Bakongo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Rainbow god. The chief adversary of the storm god. He stills the thunder and makes his appearance in the sky. Considered to be the guardian of the earth and sea, including the village and its community.... |
God name "Lubangala Bakongo" | Zaire | God of the Rainbow Zaire |
Goddess name "Nsongo" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | moon goddess. The sister and consort of the supreme Sun god LIBANZA. In the epic legend of Nsongo and Lianja she is the twin sister and consort of a deified folk-hero.... |
Goddess name "Nsongo Bangala" | Zaire | Goddess of the moon Zaire |
Spirit name "Rubanga" | Sudan | Creator god and it was believed that the best way of praying to God was through spirits of dead relatives. At harvest time, the first harvest must be offered to the spirits to thank them for successfully interceding to God on behalf of the living. Madi, Sudan |
God name "Rubanga" | Alur / Uganda / Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | Creator god. His sacred bird is the ibis.... |
God name "Rubanga Alur" | Uganda | creator god |