Vomiting Creator God

Title 'chembe' is sometimes used for the creator in Bushongo. Native names go in `term`/alt; the English descriptor leads name.primary. Typed deity (creator).

Children

• Plant-Originating Son of the Creator
• Ancestral Mother of the Kuba
• Ant-Bringing Son of the Creator
• Lightning Spirit Cast into the Sky
• First-Man Culture Hero

Domains

• creation
• sky and cosmos

Powers

• vomits forth the sun, moon and living things
• separates the dry land from the primal water

Epithets

• the white giant

Relations

• ancestor of: Plant-Originating Son of the Creator
• ancestor of: Ant-Bringing Son of the Creator
• ancestor of: Lightning Spirit Cast into the Sky
• ancestor of: First-Man Culture Hero

Sources

• Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels: Musée du Congo Belge, 1910, pp. 20-21.
• Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples. Madison, 1978.
• "Mbombo." In encyclopaedic surveys of Bushongo religion summarizing Torday & Joyce (1910).