Pemba

Creator god manifest as grain and acacia; head of the fourfold creative quaternity.

Children

• Faro
• Mousso Koroni
• Ndomadyiri

Domains

• creation
• earth vegetation

Powers

• Create himself and the world as a fourfold being
• Descend as a seed and grow into the acacia tree
• Knead rotten wood and saliva to form the first woman

Epithets

• the balanza-tree creator

Relations

• ancestor of: Faro
• ancestor of: Mousso Koroni
• ancestor of: Ndomadyiri

Sources

• Dieterlen, Essai sur la religion bambara (Paris, 1951)