Nzua dia Kimanaueze
Ambundu · mortal · heroic age · mortal
Nzua dia Kimanaueze (the younger Kimanaueze; Ngana/Nga Nzua) is the mortal Ambundu culture-hero of Chatelain's Kimbundu tale 'The Son of Kimanaueze and the Daughter of the Sun and the Moon'. Son of the elder Kimanaueze kia Tumba a Ndala, he refused to marry any woman of earth and, with the help of the Frog Mainu who bore his proposal up to heaven, won and wed the Daughter of the Sun and Moon. By her he fathered the wonder-twins Sudika-Mbambi and Kabundungulu — the thunder and thunder-echo of the eastern and western sky. His own father, the elder Kimanaueze, is named in the tradition but is one further generation removed and is not separately entered (parentIds left empty per registry convention for unentered ancestors).
Children
Domains
- culture hero ancestry
- marriage between earth and sky
Powers
- Won a bride from heaven through the Frog's embassy
Relations
- father of: Sudika-Mbambi
- father of: Kabundungulu
- lover: Daughter of the Sun and Moon
Sources
- Heli Chatelain, Folk-Tales of Angola (1894), 'The Son of Kimanaueze and the Daughter of the Sun and the Moon'
- 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), s.v. Kimanaueze / Sudika-Mbambi
- Chatelain 1894; Werner 1933 ch. VIII