Kabundungulu

Half-divine secondborn twin son of the daughter of the Sun and Moon by Nzua dia Kimanaueze. The eponymous thunder-echo figure of Ambundu meteorological theology — his voice answers Sudika-Mbambi's thunder from the West. The home-watcher to his brother's adventurer; the rescuer-from-underworld via the kilembe-life-tree warning. The brothers' eventual quarrel over wives and their separation into east-and-west thunder-stations is the etiological-end of the saga.

Parentage

• Daughter of the Sun and Moon
• Nzua dia Kimanaueze

Domains

• thunder echo of the western sky
• reviver of the slain twin

Powers

• Revives his slain twin from his bones
• Answers as the echo of thunder from the west
• Raised his dead brother back to life from his bones
• Spoke from the womb and was born miraculously
• Watched the life-tree to know his brother's fate

Relations

• sibling: Sudika-Mbambi

Sources

• Heli Chatelain Folk-Tales of Angola (1894); A. C. Werner Myths and Legends of the Bantu (1933) ch. VIII; Patricia Ann Lynch and Jeremy Roberts African Mythology, A to Z (Infobase 2010)
• Chatelain 1894; Werner 1933