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

• parent: 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 latin · Woot · cultThe culture-hero and first ancestor-king from whom the Kuba kings descendJan Vansina, on Kuba history and tradition (secondary)
• Woot Bushongo · Woot · namethe first man and first kingE. Torday & T. A. Joyce, Notes ethnographiques sur les Bakuba (secondary)

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: Lightning Spirit Cast into the SkyFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Vomiting Creator God) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: Ancestral Mother of the Kuba
• spouse: Ancestral Mother of the Kuba

Sources

• Woot is the Kuba culture-hero and first man who named all things, committed incest with his sister Mweel, migrated, and became ancestor of the Kuba peoples and source of royal legitimacy.: Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, pp. 31-34. (secondary)
• The Kuba are known as the 'Children of Woot' and the king (nyim) is regarded as Woot's descendant.: Vansina, Jan. The Children of Woot. 1978. (secondary); Torday, Emil, and T.A. Joyce. Les Bushongo. Brussels, 1910. (primary)