Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Bumba" | Bantu / Africa | A god of fire |
God name "Bumba" | Boshongo / Bantu / southern Africa | Creator god. The progenitor of the world out of chaos. When he experienced stomachache he vomited the earth, Sun, moon and, finally, all living things, including mankind.... |
God name "Bumba Bantu" | Africa | God of fire. Africa |
God name "Iruwa" | Bantu | God of the Wachaga, but they insist that the Sun is not the same thing as God. Bantu |
God name "Kabezya-Mpungu" | Bantu | Kabezya-Mpungu decides to become invisible after creating the world and the first humans who did not yet have a heart. After balancing the Rain, Sun, moon, and darkness, he leaves. To replace the visible god, he sends the people Mutima ("heart"), the life-giving or Divine part of humans. Bantu |
Monster name "Karnmapa" | Bantu | A monster which swallows the population of a village-or, indeed, of the whole country and is subsequently slain by a boy hero. Bantu |
"Khodumodurno" | Bantu | Kammapa or Karnmapa, a huge, shapeless thing that swallowed every living creature that came in its way. Bantu |
God name "Kombu" | Bantu / Africa | This is the god of creation |
God name "Kombu Bantu" | Africa | God of creation Africa |
God name "Leza" | Bantu / Zimbabwe | A creator god |
God name "Leza Bantu" | Zimbabwe | Creator god Zimbabwe |
God name "Modimo o mogolo" | Bantu | High God who made the sky and the earth, and when he had finished them he climbed up into the sky (conceived, of course, as a solid vault) by driving in pegs on which he set his feet, taking out each one as soon as he had stepped on the next, so that people should not be able to follow him. And in the sky he has lived ever since. Bantu |
"Nzame/ Nzame Nkwa" | Bantu | The creator, who was really three in one |
God name "Yangombi" | Bantu | God of creation Bantu |