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 latin · Mbombo (Bumba) · cultThe creator who, in pain, vomited up the sun, moon, stars, and all living beingsE. Torday & T. A. Joyce, on the Bushongo (Kuba) (secondary)

Relations

• ancestor of: Plant-Originating Son of the CreatorThe white-giant creator Mbombo, who vomited up the world, fathered the three finishing creator-sons; Chonganda (origin of plants) already registers him, mirrored as ancestor-of to preserve the deity tier.Torday, E. & Joyce, T. A., 'Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba' (1910) (secondary)
• ancestor of: Ant-Bringing Son of the CreatorNyonye Ngana, the creator-son who brought the ants that made fertile soil, proceeds from Mbombo and already registers him; mirrored as ancestor-of.Torday, E. & Joyce, T. A., 'Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba' (1910) (secondary)
• ancestor of: Lightning Spirit Cast into the SkyTsetse Bumba, the lightning cast into the sky, is one of Mbombo's creator-children and already registers him; mirrored as ancestor-of.Torday, E. & Joyce, T. A., 'Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba' (1910) (secondary)
• ancestor of: First-Man Culture HeroWoot, the first-man culture-hero and divine ancestor of the Kuba, is a son of the creator Mbombo and already registers him as parent; mirrored as ancestor-of.Torday, E. & Joyce, T. A., 'Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba' (1910); Vansina, J., 'The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples' (1978) (secondary)

Sources

• Mbombo (Bumba) is the Kuba/Bushongo creator who, alone in darkness over the primal waters, vomited up the sun, moon, stars, nine animals and humankind.: Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels: Musée du Congo Belge, 1910, pp. 20-21. (primary); Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples. Madison, 1978. (secondary)
• Mbombo is described as a giant white being who had long been ill/lonely before the act of creation.: "Mbombo." In encyclopaedic surveys of Bushongo religion summarizing Torday & Joyce (1910). (tertiary)