Isimbwa

Isimbwa, son of the last Batembuzi king Isaza and of Nyamata (daughter of the underworld-king Nyamiyonga), and father of the Bacwezi founder Ndahura. The hinge between the Batembuzi and Bacwezi dynasties: born in the underworld, he comes up to father Ndahura by Nyinamwiru. Named in the bunyoro_ndahura entry, where the father Isimbwa is son of Isaza, and in the bunyoro_nyamiyonga entry as the son whose mother is Nyamata. Classed demigod as the underworld-and-earth-born link of the demi-divine Cwezi line.

Parentage

• paternal: Isaza
• maternal: Nyamata

Domains

• underworld passage

Powers

• Move between the underworld and the land of the living

Epithets

• Isimbwa latin · Isimbwa · mythSon of Isaza, father of the Bacwezi founder NdahuraRoscoe, The Bakitara or Banyoro (1923) (secondary)

Relations

• father of: NdahuraFather of Ndahura, founder of the Bacwezi dynasty.parentIds.Roscoe, The Bakitara or Banyoro (1923) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Roscoe, The Bakitara or Banyoro (1923) (secondary); Fisher, Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda (1911) (secondary)
• son-of-Isaza-and-Nyamata-father-of-Ndahura: Roscoe, The Bakitara or Banyoro (1923) (secondary)