Kaginga (the Incarnation of Evil)
Lega · numen · Lega traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Kaginga is the incarnation of evil in Lega cosmology, the disordering power that helps witches and sorcerers; the moral instruction and solidarity of Bwami are framed as the counterweight to him.
Domains
- evil and disorder
Powers
- to aid sorcerers and spread disorder
Sources
- Kaginga is the Lega personification of evil and disorder, helper of sorcerers, set against the moral teaching of the Bwami association.: Daniel P. Biebuyck, Lega Culture: Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973). (secondary); Daniel P. Biebuyck, The Arts of Zaire, Vol. 2: Eastern Zaire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). (secondary)