First-ancestor / founder-hero tier (mortal). The Bemba have no rich high-god myth-cycle beyond Lesa, so Chitimukulu supplies the people's foundational tradition. The crocodile-clan (bena ng'andu) migration legend traces the paramountcy to him.
Domains
kingship
ancestral spirits
Powers
lead the people out of Luba country
Leads the bena ng'andu out of Luba country to found the Bemba paramountcy
Succeeds to the mipashi (guardian spirits) of his matrilineal ancestors
Epithets
Chitimukulu
Sources
Roberts, A. D. (1973). A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-Eastern Zambia before 1900. London: Longman.