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List of Gods : "SW Africa" - 360 records

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God name
"Jokinam"
Lake Albert / East Africa lake god. The owner of the “lake cows” which graze at the bottom of lake Albert and which are herded by drowned fishermen....
God name
"Jokinam Lake Albert"
Africa lake god Africa

"Juck Shilluck"
Africa This is the creator of the world

"Juok"
Africa / Egypt Juok of the Shilluks. Juok molded all men of earth while he wandered the earth creating the rest of the world. White men were created from white sand which Juok found in the land of the white. Red or brown men were created out of the mud of the Nile in Egypt. Black men were created from black earth found in the land of the Shilluck. According to this creation story, man was given all necessary parts to function. Each part had a reason for being. For example, Juok gave man arms in order for man to work. Africa
God name
"Ka Tyeleo"
Senufo / Ivory Coast, West Africa Creator god. Significantly in such an environment, according to tradition, he fashioned the fruit-bearing trees on the seventh day of creation....
Supreme god name
"Kaang"
Africa Supreme god Africa
Supreme god name
"Kaang/ Khu/ Kho/ Thora"
Bushmen / Africa The supreme god
God name
"Kahdir"
Africa vegetation god of the got his immortality by drinking from the well of life Africa
God name
"Kahdir/ Al Kahdir"
N Africa A vegetation god of the got his immortality by drinking from the well of life
Goddess name
"Kaikara"
Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa Harvest goddess. Propitiated before harvesting with offerings of millet....
God name
"Kalahari aka Cagn Mantis"
Africa a creator god of the people of the Kalahari in Africa and in particular Botswana. He is credited with having made all things (he made the moon from an old shoe), and is the god of natural phenomena. Omnipresent, he manifests himself in everything in the world, but especially in the mantis and caterpillar, which seem to be his favored animals. He has one wife, Coti, and, with her, two sons, Cogaz and Gewi. At one time, he lived on earth but he later moved his dwelling to the top of the sky.
God name
"Kalisia"
Pigmy / Democratic Republic of Congo / Congo, central Africa Creator god. The guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests. Pigmy hunters invoke the god with special rituals and he delivers dream messages identifying the location of game....
God name
"Kalrnga"
Ndonga / northern Namibia, southern Africa Creator god. Said to take the form of a giant man who is always partially hidden by clouds and generally seen only by women intermediaries known as nelagos who go to converse with him in sacred places. He is the father of MUSISI. The god is invoked at times of warfare and illness, but also as a fertility deity and before making a journey....

"Kalunga Ndonga"
Africa Creator of all things Africa(south)
Spirit name
"Kangalogba"
Pokot / Suk / Uganda / western Kenya, East Africa Primordial spirit. The female spirit personified in the dragonfly and also the apotheosis of the sacred river Oubangui. The mother of the creator god TORO....
God name
"Kazyoba"
Nyamwezi / Tanzania, East Africa Sun god. Regarded as the tutelary deity and creator of the tribe....
Deities name
"Ketua"
Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa God of fortune. One of seven deities invoked at daybreak. He controls both good luck and ill-fortune. According to tradition he has seven children: morning, noon, evening, night, Sun, moon and water. He accords to water the privileges of a firstborn son....
God name
"Khadir"
Pre - Islamic north African vegetation god. He wanders the earth returning to the same spot once in every 500 years and is said to have gained his immortality by drinking from the well of life. Similar in some respects to the Syrian god ADONIS and revered by Alexander the Great. Normally referred to as Al-Khidr (the green one)....
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