Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Haronga" | Maori | A sky god and the father of Ra the Sun and Marama the moon. Maori |
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 |