Ruhanga
Bunyoro · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Remote creator and sky-god of the Banyoro, first of the Batembuzi.
Domains
- creation
- sky supreme
Powers
- Create the world and its first inhabitants
- Withdraw as a remote, rarely-addressed creator
Epithets
- Ruhanga The creator-god of the Nyoro, maker and orderer of the worldBunyoro (Uganda) ethnography (J. Beattie) (secondary)
Relations
- ancestor of: NdahuraRemote creator and first of the Batembuzi.J. Roscoe, The Bakitara or Banyoro (1923); Ruhanga, first of the Batembuzi, as remote forebear of the Bacwezi line (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Beattie, Bunyoro: An African Kingdom (1960) (secondary)