Bantu religion is the system of beliefs and legends of the Bantu people of Africa. Although Bantu peoples account for several hundred different ethnic...

Jinkisi or Minkisi, deities of Bantu mythology. These deities resemble Olorun and the other orishas of the Yoruba religion. Minkisi is a Kongo language...

be the Supreme Creator. Similar to some other Bantu religions, Adherents of Zulu traditional religion believe in honoring ancestors (Amadlozi). Unkulunkulu...

strength and power from the ancestral realm. African diaspora religions Bantu religion Hoodoo Nyambe Nzambi Mpungu Brown, Ras Michael (2012). African-Atlantic...

traditional religion (Edo people of Edo State) Inam (Ibibio people of Southern Nigeria) Bantu religion (Bantu of Central/Southern Africa) Malagasy religion (People...

Congo River and surrounding areas. The creator god (or chembe) in Bushongo religion is called Bumba. Other names for him include M'Bombo and M'Bomba. He is...

The Baluba are one of the Bantu peoples of Central Africa. Their creator deity's name is Kabezya-Mpungu. The Baluba creation story makes a connection...

Bantu Philosophy (La philosophie bantoue in French) is a 1945 book written by Placide Tempels which argues that the Bantu peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa...

means "Don’t look for God, He does not have a body." In the religion of Candomblé Bantu, Nzambi is the "sovereign master". He created the earth and then...

eternal God of Essence, as well as Moon, Earth and Sky Mother in Bakongo religion. She is also the female counterpart of the Kongo creator god, Nzambi Mpungu...

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are...

traditional religion Bafia religion Baka traditional religion Bantu religion Abagusii religion Akamba traditional religion AmaMpondomise traditional religion Badimo...

name Mumbi comes from the Bantu root verb KUMBA, "BA", the same root word that gives rise to "UMBA". The prefix "Mu" is the Bantu noun classifier for nouns...

The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the...

Mebege (also called Nzeme and Mbere) is the Supreme God of the Fang people of the Central African Republic. Nzeme (or Mebege) is believed to have created...

physically and spiritually. God in Bantu mythology List of solar deities Traditional African religion portal Kenya portal Religion portal Kenyata (1938), pp....

Supreme God, Sky Father, and God of the Sun across numerous traditional Bantu religions. The Bakongo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola...

reanimated through various methods, most commonly magical practices in religions like Vodou. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often...

Igbo religion Mwari in Shona religion Nyambe in Bantu religion Nzambi in Bakongo religion Ọlọrun in Yoruba religion Ruhanga in Rutara religion Para Brahman...

Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African...

is manifested or inhabits in Proto-Njila, an ancient subdivision of the Bantu language family. In its earliest attestations in Kikongo dialects in the...

the underworld. Before the arrival of European colonizers, the various Bantu-speaking communities in Southern Africa had their own distinct spiritual...

is a member of the pantheon of gods or balubaale in Baganda traditional religion and is considered the god of prosperity, harvest, fertility, and health...

The original early-Bantu name for the highest God of gods, creator and father of all gods, was probably Nyàmbé, possibly from the verb root -àmb-, "to...

and Ishe, is the Supreme Creator deity according to Shona traditional religion. It is believed that Mwari is the author of all things and all life and...

Muisa is the god of death and a major antagonist against Mwindo in Nyanga mythology. He is typically shown as greedy, cowardly, and manipulative. He is...

few well-known traditions. Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa) Bushongo mythology (Congo) Kongo religion (Congo) Lugbara mythology (Congo)...

both the ocean, rivers and lakes of Cameroon. Similar to a simbi in Kongo religion, a jengu is seen as a guardian of the natural world that acts as a spiritual...

Osiris Or the Egyptian Religion of Resurrection 1911, Part 2. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7661-4067-7. Knappert, Jan (1977). Bantu Myths and Other Tales...

Khanyapa (also known as Kholumolumo in Lesotho Sesotho and Kgodumodumo in South African Sesotho) is a mythical creature from the Basotho people of Southern...