Mortal First Ancestor
Fang · demigod · mythic age · Recorded classification
Progenitor tier: typed demigod (god-made first ancestor, mortal by design, contrasted with the immortal but cursed Fam). His wife is Mbongwe.
Domains
- ancestry
Powers
- fashions the first woman from a tree
- fashions his wife Mbongwe from a living tree
Relations
- spouse: Mortal First Woman of the Tree
- descendant of: Supreme Creator of the Threefold GodheadCreated by Nzame as the new, mortal first man after Fam's fall; creation rendered as descent.Beier (ed.), The Origin of Life and Death: African Creation Myths (1966) (secondary)
Sources
- Sekume is the second, mortal man created by Nzame after the first world's destruction; with his wife Mbongwe (made from a tree) he is the ancestor of the Fang.: Knappert, Jan. African Mythology. London, 1990, s.v. 'Nzame'. (secondary); Fernandez, James W. Bwiti. Princeton, 1982. (secondary)