Damba is the hunter-stranger who founds the sacred kingship of Léré and reigns as its first gõ (king). In the charter myth he is the younger son of a chief of a neighbouring people, named in the sources as the Guidar or as the king of Libé, who wanders into the country of the autochthonous Kizéré clans during a killing drought. Meeting two girls digging for water in a dry riverbed, he is shunned by the daughter of the Teuré, who flees at his unkempt appearance, but given water by the daughter of the Buffalo clan (ban-se), whom he repays with game. His open-handedness, set against the miserliness of the reigning Kizéré chief who doled out only beans, moves the elders to depose their chief and offer Damba the chieftaincy. From him descends the rain-kingship of Léré, whose holder makes the rain fall or withholds it; his successors, wishing to loosen the tie to his foreign origin, took the throne-name Daba rather than Damba.