Mortal First Woman of the Tree
Fang · demigod · mythic age · Recorded classification
Progenitress tier: typed demigod (god-occasioned first woman, mortal by design), mirroring her husband fang_sekume. Carved from a fallen ebony tree by Sekume at Nzame command, the first woman from whom the Fang descend. Named in the widely reproduced Fang creation narrative (Knappert 1990, the Trilles/Tessmann tradition; Fernandez 1982). Authored as a NAMED-NO-ENTRY attested kin of the existing Fang creation family.
Domains
- ancestry
- fashioning of humankind
Powers
- Bear the first generations and become ancestress of the Fang
Epithets
- Mbongwe The first woman, carved from a tree, ancestress of the FangKnappert, Jan. African Mythology. London, 1990, s.v. Nzame. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Mortal First AncestorWife of the mortal first man Sekume; with him the ancestress of the Fang. Reciprocal needed on the existing figure fang_sekume.Knappert, Jan. African Mythology. London, 1990, s.v. Nzame: Mbongwe the wife of Sekume. (secondary)
Sources
- Mbongwe is the Fang first woman, fashioned by the mortal first man Sekume from the wood of a tree at the bidding of Nzame after the destruction of the first world; with Sekume she is the ancestress of the Fang.: Knappert, Jan. African Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. London, 1990, s.v. Nzame. (secondary); Fernandez, James W. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. Princeton, 1982. (secondary)