Kuitikuiti, 'the waver', heads the serpent pantheon of the Woyo people of the Ngoyo coast, within the wider Kongo cultural sphere. In the creation story recorded by Jan Knappert, four spirits in the shape of great snakes lived in the whirlpool between the tide and the mouth of the Congo: Kuitikuiti, his wife Mboze the fertile, and their children Makanga and Mbatilanda. Kuitikuiti left the waters to create all the animals without tails, and Mbatilanda followed him making the animals with tails. Returning home, Kuitikuiti found Mboze pregnant by her own son Makanga and killed her in his fury, whereupon the dying Mboze gave birth to the serpent daughter Bunzi, who inherited the giving of rain. Luc de Heusch analyses this myth of primordial incest and its issue as the charter of fertility and sacred kingship among the coastal Kongo kingdoms.