Nyinakigwa

Nyinakigwa ('mother of Kigwa'), the barren woman of the 'Imana and the Childless Couple' tale who is granted Kigwa, Lututsi and a daughter by the High God. Named explicitly in the batch prose of banyaruanda_imana. Mortal-tier ancestress; the maternal link to Kigwa is the Childless-Couple variant that the corpus ties to the celestial royal line.

Children

• Kigwa
• Lututsi
• Nyinabatutsi

Domains

• motherhood and origins

Relations

• mother of: Kigwa
• mother of: Lututsi
• mother of: Nyinabatutsi

Sources

• Harold Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (Oxford University Press, 2000), s.v. Imana.