the Creator of Life and Death

Ovambo · deity · primordial · deity

High-god / creator (deity) of the Ovambo of northern Namibia and southern Angola. The same name Kalunga/Karunga is shared into Herero (as Ndjambi Karunga) and along the Atlantic Bantu coast; its semantic range covers creator, death and the abyss.

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