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| God name "Akongo" | Ngombe / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The supreme deity considered to have given the world, and all that is in it, form and substance.... |
| God name "Arabati" | Africa | Creator god worshipped by a pigmy tribe living along the banks of the river Ituri. Congo, West Africa |
| God name "Arebati" | Bambuti / Congo | sky and moon god of the pygmies. Bambuti / Congo |
| God name "Arebati" | Bambuti / Congo, West Africa | Creator god. Worshiped by a pigmy tribe living along the banks of the river Ituri. He is considered to have created mankind from clay and blood, covered with skin.... |
| God name "Bariga" | Ngbandi / northern Democratic Republic of Congo / Central African Republic | God of clear waters. One of seven gods invoked at daybreak, the creator deity of white-skinned people.... |
| Deity name "Bomazi" | Congo | Ancestral deity of the Bushongo and other peoples of the Congo. |
| God name "Fidi Mukullu" | Bena Lulua / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He provides mankind with food, tools and weapons. The Sun and moon were engendered from his cheeks.... |
| God name "Iruva" | African | Sun god. A number of tribes worship the Sun by this generic name, particularly in Cameroon, Congo and Tanzania.... |
| Spirit name "Itonde" | Mongo / Nkundo / central Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | God of death. He consumes rats as food and is also the god of hunters in the dark jungle Forests. Described in the Epic of Lianja as the first man to die whose spirit reincarnated at the instant of death, into his son LIANJA. He possesses a bell with magical properties, the elefo, by which he predicts where death will strike.... |
| 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 "Kalisia" | Pygmy / Zaire / Congo | A creator god that is the guardian of hunters & the jungle Forests |
| 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 "Kalisia Pygmy" | Congo | Creator god who is the guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests Congo / Zaire |
| 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 "Lianja" | Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | God. He became the subject of an epic known as Nsongo and Lianja and is regarded today less as a god than a heroic figure, probably under the influence of Christianity.... |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Lomo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Goddess of peace. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each day.... |
| 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.... |
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