Lightning Spirit Cast into the Sky
Kuba · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Gender is not consistently recorded (some retellings render Tsetse as 'she'), hence sex 'unknown'. Lightning personified; typed deity (storm/fire) and explained here.
Parentage
- parent: Vomiting Creator God
Domains
- lightning
- fire
Powers
- strikes the earth with lightning bolts
- becomes the source from which people take fire
- Become the lightning driven into the sky
Relations
- sibling: Plant-Originating Son of the CreatorFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Vomiting Creator God) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Ant-Bringing Son of the CreatorFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Vomiting Creator God) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: First-Man Culture HeroFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Vomiting Creator God) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- Tsetse, one of the nine creatures Bumba vomited, was driven into the sky where it became lightning and the source of fire on earth.: Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels: Musée du Congo Belge, 1910, pp. 21-23. (primary); Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot. 1978. (secondary)