Mlentengamunye (the One-Legged One)

Mlentengamunye ('one leg') is described in Marwick's ethnography as the one-legged being who comes down in mist as a messenger of the sky-god; his sighting is an omen of illness.

Domains

• divine messengership
• fever and affliction

Powers

• to descend to earth hidden in thick mist

Relations

• subordinate to: Mvelinqangi (the First to Appear)

Sources

• Brian Allan Marwick, The Swazi: An Ethnographic Account of the Natives of the Swaziland Protectorate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).
• Hilda Kuper, An African Aristocracy: Rank Among the Swazi (London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1947).