Nzambi is the high creator-god of the Chokwe of eastern Angola, south-western Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Zambia, a figure shared in name and concept with neighbouring Western-Bantu peoples such as the Kongo (Nzambi a Mpungu). Ethnographers record that the Chokwe believe in a remote supreme being responsible for creation whom they call Kalunga and/or Nzambi, but whom they do not worship directly; instead they direct their cult to the mahamba, the ancestral and nature spirits who mediate between humanity and the creator. Because the supreme being is distant and largely uninvolved in daily life, Chokwe religious practice centres far more on the masked ancestral spirits and lineage shrines than on the creator himself.