Come

Come is the sun, and among the Mundang the solar principle is bound tightly to chieftaincy. Tradition sets a sun power among the beings ranked beneath the high god Masing, and the sun lends its name to sovereignty: of a pair of twins, who are themselves greeted as 'chiefs', the first-born is named gô-come, 'sun-chief', and the second tôbaï or gô-too. Through this nomenclature the radiance of the sun and the person of the ruler are made to mirror one another, so that kingship at Léré carries a solar cast. Sources differ on how sharply the sun is personified as an individual deity as against a venerated celestial power beneath the creator.

Domains

• sun
• sovereignty

Powers

• binds the sun to chieftaincy

Epithets

• gô-come — sun-chiefAdler, Alfred (1973), 'Les jumeaux sont rois', L'Homme 13(1-2): 167-206 (secondary)

Sources

• The sun (come) figures among the powers Mundang tradition ranks beneath the high god, and lends its name to chieftaincy: the elder of twin boys is called gô-come, 'sun-chief'.: Adler, Alfred (1973), 'Les jumeaux sont rois', L'Homme 13(1-2): 167-206 (secondary); Qiraat Africa, 'Mundang people of Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria', qiraatafrican.com — sun listed among the powers beneath the creator maseng (secondary)