Sukuma

The Pantheon Registry records 10 figures for Sukuma: 1 deity, 1 numen, 2 demigods, 6 mortals. Every entry carries at least one cited source. Attested in the Sukuma traditional religion; continuing era. The domains recorded most often here are music and dance, hunting, kingship, migration and settlement, ritual medicine, cleverness and wit, devouring, dynastic foundation.

Each name links to its cited detail page — parentage, children, domains, powers, epithets, relations and sources. For the interactive graph and map, open the app and filter to Sukuma.

Deities 1

• Liwelelo (the Sukuma Supreme Creator) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing

Numina 1

• Shing'weng'we (the all-devouring ogre) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing

Demigods 2

• Masala Kulangwa (the clever hero who slew Shing'weng'we) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Ng'wana Malundi (the legendary elephant-hunter and culture-hero) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing

Mortals 6

• Gumha (founder of the Bagalu dance society) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Ilembo (the Babinza hunter-pioneer) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Minza (ancestress of the Sukuma chiefly line) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Ngika (founder of the Bagika dance society) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Nkanda (leader of the Babinza settlement of Usukuma) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing
• Sanga (the first ntemi of the Sukuma) Sukuma traditional religion; continuing