| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Bulane" | Mozambique | God of water Mozambique |
| God name "Lesa" | southeastern African | Creator god. The name by which the supreme deity is known across a wide area of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Equating to LISA in regions of West Africa. Also regarded as a Rain god. Probably strongly influenced by Islam and, to a lesser extent, by Christianity. Also Leza.... |
| Ghost name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu" | Mozambique | Masters of the Forest, serpents that were credited with speech and bad breath. Often åśśociated with the flesh-eating maggots of corpses, ancestral spirits and ghosts took that form as a disguise. Ronga, Mozambique |
| God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu (elephant face)" | Ronga / Mozambique, southern Africa | Tutelary god. An ancestral deity who lives in and controls the Forests, also appearing in the guise of a huge snake. He is propitiated by the sacrifice of a çõçkerel.... |
| God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu Ronga" | Mozambique | A tutelary god that lives in & controls the Forest |
| God name "Mulenga" | Zambia | The creator god. The Lala, Zambia |
| God name "Muluku" | Congo | The creator god of the Benue-Congo-speaking Makua and Banayi people of Mozambique. Muluku created men and women, and gave them the art of using tools, but the humans were disobedient. So Muluku called up monkey and she monkey. He gave them tools, and the monkeys used them well. So Muluku cut off the tails of the monkeys and fastened them to the man and the woman, saying to the monkeys, "Be men," and to the humans, "Be monkeys." Macoua |
| Deity name "Nazambi" | Vodoun | Of snake-deity worshiped in many voodoo cults. Vodoun |
| God name "Nazambi/ Nyambi/ Nzambe/ Yambe/ Zambi Bakongo" | Zaire | The creator god |
| God name "Nyambe" | Zambia | God of war. Zambia |
| Goddess name "Nzambi" | Africa | Goddess of justice, the earth and of death. Africa |
| God name "Nzambi" | Bakongo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He created the first mor tal pair or, in alternative tradition, an androgy nous being in the guise of a palm tree called Muntu Walunga (the complete person). He also endowed this being with intelligence. In wooden sculptures the tree bears a woman's head and breast on one side and a bearded face on the other. Eventually the tree divided into two sepa rate sexes. Also Nyambi; Nzambe; Yambe; Zambi.... |
"Nzambi Mpungu" | Bavili | The owner of the fire of heaven. Bavili |
| God name "Tilo" | Mozambique | God of the sky and of thunder and Rain Mozambique |
"Zambi" | Angola | The supreme being |
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