Nzambici
Kongo · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Female counterpart of Nzambi a Mpungu, the earth/sky-mother paired with him in creation.
Domains
- earth creation
Powers
- Stand as female counterpart who gives life with Nzambi
Relations
- spouse: Nzambi a MpunguReciprocal of kongo_nzambi_a_mpungu.spouse — Nzambici, the earth-mother and female counterpart, is paired with the remote sky-creator in Lower Congo cosmology.Dennett, Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (1898) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa (1986) (secondary)