The second of Nkongolo's two sisters and a wife of Mbidi Kiluwe; in de Heusch's recension the mother of Kisula. SOURCE DIVERGENCE (see Bulanda): a competing popular/Wikipedia tradition instead makes Mabela the mother of Kalala Ilunga and makes Bulanda's son the Lunda founder Tshibinda Ilunga; this batch follows de Heusch, so no kin edge to Kalala is drawn from Mabela. Her son Kisula, and the Lunda founder Tshibinda, are not individuated here (Tshibinda belongs to the Lunda charter; Kisula is named only in passing). Authored as a deity, in the same charter-level register as her brother Nkongolo and sister Bulanda. era mythic.