Wanema
Buganda · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ssese Islands lubaale, father of the war-god Kibuka and of Mukasa, the great lake-god of Victoria Nyanza. The Ssese island shrines were the source from which the principal Baganda gods came to the mainland kingdom.
Children
Domains
- ssese islands lubaale
- progenitor of the balubaale
Powers
- Father the great lubaale of the lake and of war
- Afflict and heal lameness and physical handicap
Relations
- ancestor of: MukasaSsese-Islands lubaale; father of the lake-god Mukasa and the war-god Kibuka, who already record Wanema as parent.J. Roscoe, The Baganda (1911), on the Ssese-Islands lubaale Wanema as father of Mukasa and Kibuka (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Roscoe, The Baganda (1911), ch. on the gods (balubaale) (secondary); Kaggwa, Ekitabo kye mpisa za Baganda (The Customs of the Baganda, 1934 tr.) (secondary)
- parentage of Kibuka and Mukasa: Roscoe, The Baganda (1911): Kibuka and Mukasa as sons of Wanema of Ssese (secondary)