Umvelinqangi
Zulu · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Zulu sky-god of thunder and earthquake, 'he who was in the very beginning'.
Domains
- sky thunder
Powers
- Commands thunder and earthquake
- descends to the Uhlanga swamp and brings forth the primal reeds
Epithets
- uMvelinqangi 'the one who emerged first / first cause' — the sky-father supreme being, source of the reed-bed (uhlanga) from which life broke offCallaway, Henry. The Religious System of the Amazulu, 1868–70 (primary ethnography); Berglund, Axel-Ivar. Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism, Hurst, 1976 (secondary scholarship)
Relations
- ancestor of: NomkhubulwaneH. Callaway, The Religious System of the Amazulu (1870); the sky-princess Nomkhubulwane (iNkosazana) as descendant of the primal sky-god Umvelinqangi (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Wikipedia, Umvelinqangi (secondary)