Maker of the First Man
Fang · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Second person of the Nzame–Mebere–Nkwa triad (sometimes the triad is given as Nzame–Mebere–Nkwa, sometimes the names are reordered). Typed deity (creator-aspect).
Domains
- authority and leadership
- fashioning of humankind
Powers
- shapes the first human body from earth
- Establish order and governance
Relations
- companion: Spirit of Beauty and HarmonySecond and third persons of the Fang creator triad.Beier (ed.), The Origin of Life and Death: African Creation Myths (1966) (secondary)
- companion: Supreme Creator of the Threefold GodheadReciprocal of fang_nzame.companion — First and second persons of the threefold Fang creator (Nzame-Mebere-Nkwa) who deliberate and create as one.Beier (ed.), The Origin of Life and Death: African Creation Myths (1966) (secondary)
Sources
- Mebere is the second member of the Fang creator triad, associated with authority and the fashioning of the first man.: Fernandez, James W. Bwiti. Princeton, 1982, pp. 321-335. (secondary); Knappert, Jan. African Mythology. London, 1990. (secondary)