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: KigwaTale-mother of Kigwa in the Childless-Couple account (the dominant dynastic account makes Kigwa the son of Nkuba; the corpus identifies the two as the same Kigwa).Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000), s.v. Imana — the sons Kigwa and Lututsi. (secondary)
• mother of: LututsiMother of Lututsi.Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000), s.v. Imana. (secondary)
• mother of: NyinabatutsiMother of the daughter Nyinabatutsi.Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000), s.v. Imana — and a daughter. (secondary)

Sources

• Nyinakigwa, a once-barren woman, was granted three children by the High God Imana on condition she keep their origin secret; the sons Kigwa and Lututsi and a daughter, whose betrayed secret caused them to fall from the sky, are ancestral figures of the Rwandan clans.: Harold Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (Oxford University Press, 2000), s.v. Imana. (secondary)