Daughter of the Sun and Moon

Unnamed-by-tradition daughter of the Sun (Lumbi / Kambonge) and the Moon (Mwesi / Kakwiji) in the Ambundu cosmological tradition; two-divine-parent and therefore deity-tier. Wife of Nzua dia Kimanaueze via the cross-class courtship-and-bride-price narrative that the Chatelain 1894 ethnographic collection preserves in elaborate detail. Mother of the twin demigods Sudika-Mbambi (thunder) and Kabundungulu (echo) — the wonder-children who speak from her womb and are born already armed.

Children

• Kabundungulu
• Sudika-Mbambi

Domains

• daughter of sun and moon
• divine mother of the thunder twins

Powers

• Bears and mothers the thunder-twins Sudika-Mbambi and Kabundungulu

Relations

• lover: Nzua dia Kimanaueze
• mother of: Sudika-Mbambi
• mother of: Kabundungulu

Sources

• Heli Chatelain Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, with Ki-mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society Vol. I, 1894); A. C. Werner Myths and Legends of the Bantu (1933)