Kiveti, the first woman

Kiveti, whose name is the Kikamba word for 'woman' or 'wife', is the first woman of the Akamba creation story and the wife of Mundu. Fashioned in the sky by Mulungu and lowered with her husband and their cattle to the rock of Nzaui, she shares with him the footprints the Akamba point out on the hill as proof of the tale. As the mother of the heavenly couple's sons she stands at the head of Akamba genealogy, alongside the unnamed pair who emerged from the anthill and founded the spirits' clan (the aimu).

Domains

• human ancestry

Relations

• spouse: Mundu, the first manKiveti is the wife of Mundu, the first man; together they are the primordial human couple of the Akamba creation myth.Gerhard Lindblom, The Akamba in British East Africa, 2nd ed. (Uppsala: Appelbergs, 1920). (secondary); John S. Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy (London: Heinemann, 1969). (secondary)

Sources

• Kiveti is the first woman of the Akamba creation myth, wife of Mundu, fashioned by Mulungu and set with him on the rock of Nzaui.: Gerhard Lindblom, The Akamba in British East Africa: An Ethnological Monograph, 2nd enlarged ed. (Uppsala: Appelbergs, 1920; 1st ed. 1916). (secondary); John S. Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy (London: Heinemann, 1969). (secondary)