Simbi

NO EDGE OR EQUATION IS WRITTEN TO kongo_simbi, which the sweep resolves his name onto. The Simbi are the Kongo nation's lwa and the corpus holds a Kongo key; that the name is the same is a fact about the crossing and not a relation between beings.

Domains

• fresh water
• sorcery
• spiritual communication

Relations

• of the simbi with: Simbi Andezo

Sources

• Reference treatment of the Simbi: the Simbi range from balanced and benevolent forms, such as Simbi Andezo, to figures such as Simbi Makaya; Simbi is foremost a spirit of fresh water - of springs, streams and wells - and a consummate magician, who lends his power to many a houngan, manbo and bokò, and is revered as a master of sorcery and of spiritual communication; Simbi Andezo, 'Simbi of two waters', stands between vitality and disappearance, memory and forgetting, healing and dissolution, a spirit of thresholds within water, ruling the place where currents meet, where one state becomes another, and where the visible world touches the hidden world.