Self-Begetting Creator God

In Bwiti and some Fang accounts the creator is Mebege; in others the creator/trinity is named Nzame. The names overlap and the divine principle is often spoken of as a triad (see Nzame, Mebere, Nkwa). Typed deity (creator).

Domains

• creation
• sky

Powers

• forms the cosmic egg from parts of his own body

Epithets

• Zame ye Mebege

Relations

• ancestor of: Supreme Creator of the Threefold Godhead

Sources

• Fernandez, James W. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. Princeton, 1982, pp. 321-330.
• Tessmann, Günter. Die Pangwe. Berlin, 1913, vol. 2.