Ngulube
Nyakyusa · deity · Nyakyusa traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Ngulube is the apical ancestor of the Ngonde ruling dynasty, the hero who, in the traditions recorded by Godfrey Wilson and later historians, migrated from the Kinga country (Bukinga) in the Livingstone Mountains and established the line from which the Kyungu descends. He belongs to the same cycle of highland origins as the Nyakyusa divine brothers, in which fire, iron and chieftainship are carried down from Ukinga into the lands north of Lake Nyasa.
Domains
- cultural origins
- sacred kingship
Powers
- found the Ngonde ruling line
- carry fire and chieftainship down from the Kinga country
Relations
- child: KyunguThe Kyungu is his dynastic heir.Godfrey Wilson, The Constitution of Ngonde (Rhodes-Livingstone Papers No. 3, 1939) (primary)
Sources
- Ngulube is the apical ancestor of the Ngonde ruling dynasty, the hero who migrated from the Kinga country (Bukinga) and established the line from which the Kyungu descends.: Godfrey Wilson, The Constitution of Ngonde (Rhodes-Livingstone Papers No. 3, 1939) (primary); O. J. M. Kalinga, A History of the Ngonde Kingdom of Malawi (Mouton, 1985) (secondary)