Mlentengamunye (the One-Legged One)
Swazi · numen · Swazi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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)He is the descending messenger of the otherwise remote high god Mvelinqangi.Brian Allan Marwick, The Swazi: An Ethnographic Account of the Natives of the Swaziland Protectorate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940). (secondary)
Sources
- Mlentengamunye is the one-legged emissary of the high god Mvelinqangi in Swazi belief, a mist-borne portent of fever seen only by women and children.: Brian Allan Marwick, The Swazi: An Ethnographic Account of the Natives of the Swaziland Protectorate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940). (secondary); Hilda Kuper, An African Aristocracy: Rank Among the Swazi (London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1947). (secondary)