High-god / sky-creator (deity) of the Bemba of north-eastern Zambia. Lesa is the regional Bemba form of the wider Bantu high-god name Leza; both transcendent sky-and-rain god and the immanent breath in creatures.
Domains
rain
thunder storm
fertility
Powers
send rain and speak in the thunder
Sets the creative power in the roots and shrubs used for medicine and ritual
Epithets
Lesa
Sources
Richards, A. I. (1939). Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.
Werner, A. (1933). Myths and Legends of the Bantu. London: George G. Harrap, ch. III.