Kianda is the water-spirit of Kimbundu (Mbundu) folklore, a female being (and class of beings, pl. ianda) of the sea, rivers and lakes, and the patron of fishermen, centred on Luanda and the Ilha de Luanda where the annual Luanda Island Feast still honours her. Unlike Nzambi and Kalunga she is NOT attested in Chatelain's 1894 corpus; her documentation is 20th-century and later (Óscar Ribas's Angolan ethnography; the living cult; modern Angolan letters such as Pepetela's O Desejo de Kianda), so she is recorded with era 'mythic-present'. She is frequently assimilated in colonial-era and popular imagery to a mermaid and, in Afro-Brazilian Bantu religion, to Dandalunda. No traditional Mbundu source gives her parentage or kin; she is treated as an autonomous (and plural) class of water-guardian.