One of Nkongolo's two sisters and a wife of Mbidi Kiluwe; in de Heusch's recension the mother of the founder-king Kalala Ilunga, hence an ancestress of the Luba dynasty. SOURCE DIVERGENCE: de Heusch (the anchor) makes Bulanda the mother of Kalala (and Mabela the mother of Kisula); a competing popular/Wikipedia tradition reverses this (Mabela → Kalala, Bulanda → the Lunda founder Tshibinda Ilunga). Authored as a deity to keep her in the same autochthonous, charter-level register as her brother Nkongolo and sister Mabela, rather than as a historical mortal. era mythic.