the Moon
Lozi · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Consort-deity of the creator; her name is glossed 'she of the long things'. A moon-goddess (deity). With Nyambe she is mother of Mwambwa.
Children
Domains
- moon
- creation of living things
Relations
- spouse: the Withdrawing CreatorThe moon-goddess Nasilele is the consort of the creator Nyambe; with him she is mother of Mwambwa (that parent-edge is recorded on Mwambwa's entry).E. W. Smith, 'The Idea of God among South African Tribes' / African Ideas of God (ed. Smith), Lozi cosmology; Jacottet, Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze (secondary)
Sources
- Nasilele is the wife of Nyambe, identified with the moon, to whom respect was paid at the new moon.: Jalla, A. (1921). Litaba za Sicaba sa Malozi. Cape Town. (secondary); Werner, A. (1933). Myths and Legends of the Bantu. London: George G. Harrap, ch. III. (secondary)