Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Gaunab" | Khoi / Hottentot / Namibia, southern Africa | Malevolent god of darkness. The chief adversaryof the creator god TSUNIGOAB. He was engaged in a primordial struggle for supremacy during which Tsunigoab was wounded but eventually triumphed, consigning Gaunab to the so-called black heaven.... |
God name "Gaunab Kohl" | Hottentot / Namibia / S Africa | A malevolent God of darkness as well as the god of of of the black heaven |
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.... |
God name "Musisi" | Ndonga / Namibia, southwest Africa | Messenger god. The intercessor between the creator god KALUNGA and mankind. His father is Kalunga.... |
God name "Ndjambi" | Herero / Namibia, southwest Africa | sky god. A benevolent deity who protects and lifts up all who die natural deaths. The utterance of his name is generally forbidden.... |
God name "Sore-Gus" | Hottentot / Namibia, southern Africa | sky god. The Sun god, embodied in the shape of a golden ram with long fluffy wool.... |
God name "Tsunigoab (wounded knee)" | Khoi / Namibia, southwestern Africa | Creator god. As his name suggests, he walks with a limp. His injury was sustained in a primordial battle with his arch rival GAUNAB, the god of darkness, who was eventually driven away to live in the black heaven. Tsunigoab used to be invoked at dawn each day.... |
God name "Tsunigoab Khoi" | Namibia | Creator god of who walks with a limp and was invoked at dawn each day Namibia |