Kigwa
Banyaruanda · demigod · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Kigwa (personal name Sabizeze), the celestial being who fell from heaven, son of Nkuba; first ancestor of the Banyiginya and head of the Ibimanuka. Two interlocking origin accounts are preserved: the dynastic poem Ubucurabwenge has Nkuba beget Kigwa beget Muntu, while the Childless-Couple tale has Imana grant Kigwa (with his brother Lututsi and a sister) to the barren Nyinakigwa; the corpus identifies both as the same royal-line Kigwa. Demigod as a divinely-descended apical ancestor. Named in the batch prose of banyaruanda_nkuba and banyaruanda_imana; materialized here.
Parentage
- father: NkubaSon of Nkuba, King of the Sky; the reverse father-of edge on banyaruanda_nkuba is needed.Kagame, Ubucurabwenge — 'Nkuba begat Kigwa'. (secondary)
- parent: Nyinakigwa
Children
Domains
- celestial ancestry
- royal lineage origin
Powers
- fall from heaven as the apical royal ancestor
Relations
- father: NkubaSon of Nkuba, King of the Sky; the reverse father-of edge on banyaruanda_nkuba is needed.Kagame, Ubucurabwenge — 'Nkuba begat Kigwa'. (secondary)
- father of: MuntuFather of Muntu, the next ancestor of the Ibimanuka line toward Gihanga.Kagame, Ubucurabwenge; Smith (1975) — 'Kigwa begat Muntu'. (secondary)
- sibling: LututsiBrother of Lututsi in the Childless-Couple account; reciprocated within this batch.Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000), s.v. Imana — the sons Kigwa and Lututsi. (secondary)
- sibling: NyinabatutsiBrother of the sister Nyinabatutsi; reciprocated within this batch.Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000), s.v. Imana — the daughter alongside Kigwa and Lututsi. (secondary)
Sources
- Kigwa (Sabizeze), son of Nkuba the King of the Sky, is the celestial 'fallen one' who heads the Ibimanuka and is the apical ancestor of the Banyiginya royal clan, father of Muntu in the dynastic line that descends to Gihanga.: Marcel d'Hertefelt & A. Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda (1964). (secondary); Alexis Kagame, Ubucurabwenge / Inganji Karinga. (secondary); Harold Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (Oxford University Press, 2000), s.v. Imana. (secondary)