Mortal First Woman of the Tree

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

Relations

• spouse: Mortal First Ancestor

Sources

• Knappert, Jan. African Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. London, 1990, s.v. Nzame.
• Fernandez, James W. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. Princeton, 1982.