First-Man Culture Hero

Culture-hero / progenitor tier: typed demigod (first man and divine ancestor, son of the creator Mbombo) per the schema's instruction to use demigod for culture-heroes and explain here. His sister-wife is Mweel.

Parentage

• Vomiting Creator God

Domains

• culture and civilization
• kingship

Powers

• gives names to all the animals and things of the world
• fathers the founding ancestors of the Kuba peoples
• takes away and then restores the daylight

Epithets

• the first king
• Woot

Relations

• sibling: Plant-Originating Son of the Creator
• sibling: Ant-Bringing Son of the Creator
• sibling: Lightning Spirit Cast into the Sky
• sibling: Ancestral Mother of the Kuba
• spouse: Ancestral Mother of the Kuba

Sources

• Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, pp. 31-34.
• Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot. 1978.
• Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels, 1910.