Kalisia is a divinity of the Ituri forest attested among the Bambuti from the 1930s: a gracious lord from whom all good things come, and above all a god of the hunt. He stands by the Pygmy hunter on the trail of elephant, buffalo or wild pig, inspires him as to the proper place and time to seek his prey, bends his bow and steadies his arm so that he may not miss, and gives warning in dreams both of the game to be taken and of days that will be unlucky. His modest cult is the most concrete recorded for any Mbuti divine name: offerings are placed in a small gable-roofed hut, against which the hunter props his spear at night while appealing for luck in the morning's hunt. At Epulu — the band later studied by Colin Turnbull — the name is applied to the forest divinity itself, in the saying 'ndura nde Kalisia, ndura nde Mungu', the forest is Kalisia, the forest is God; the handbook tradition accordingly classes Kalisia as a creator god of the Ituri Pygmies. As with Tore, Arebati and Khonvoum, scholarship treats such names as band-variants applied to the one forest divinity rather than members of a structured pantheon, and no kin, consort or offspring is attested for Kalisia anywhere in the record.