Lightning Spirit Cast into the Sky

Gender is not consistently recorded (some retellings render Tsetse as 'she'), hence sex 'unknown'. Lightning personified; typed deity (storm/fire) and explained here.

Parentage

• 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 Creator
• sibling: Ant-Bringing Son of the Creator
• sibling: First-Man Culture Hero

Sources

• Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels: Musée du Congo Belge, 1910, pp. 21-23.
• Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot. 1978.