Kibuka
Buganda · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
War lubaale and younger brother of Mukasa; slain after revealing himself to a captured Banyoro woman.
Parentage
- parent: Wanema
Domains
- war
Powers
- Hover above the enemy in cloud and rain arrows
- Advise the kabaka through his medium in war
Relations
- sibling: MukasaThe war-god Kibuka is the younger brother of the great lake-god Mukasa; both are Ssese Islands balubaale of the house of Wanema.John Roscoe, The Baganda (1911), ch. on the gods (Mukasa and Kibuka), pp. 290-308 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Roscoe, Kibuka, the War God of the Baganda, Man (1907) (secondary)