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African mythology
Articles about African mythology within Africa.
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Shadipinyi
Shadipinyi is a little-documented water-being associated in modern English-language accounts with the Kavango River region of southern Africa. It is usually described as a large, dangerous, snake-like creature believed t…
Soko
Soko is a name associated primarily with the supreme creator being of the Nupe people of central Nigeria. In accounts of traditional Nupe religion, Soko is understood as the source of the world and of life, often describ…
Somtup
Somtup is not securely identifiable as a distinct figure in the documented mythologies of Africa. The name appears in some modern lists of “African mythical creatures” and mythology databases, but it is not supported by …
Sudika-mbambi
Sudika-mbambi is a heroic figure associated primarily with the oral traditions of the Mbundu, or Ambundu, peoples of Angola. He is usually presented not as a universally worshipped god, but as an extraordinary culture he…
Thixo
Thixo, also written Tixo or uThixo, is a name associated with God in Xhosa-speaking religious traditions of southern Africa. The term does not describe a single, uniformly documented mythological character in the way tha…
Tilo
Tilo is a name associated in some comparative accounts with a sky-related supreme power in southern and central African religious traditions. The name is often placed within discussions of Bemba or wider Bantu-speaking m…
Tore
Tore is a name associated in some ethnographic accounts with the sacred forest and a supreme or powerful forest being among certain Mbuti communities of the Ituri Forest in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Con…
Tsetse Bumba
Tsetse Bumba is a name associated in some modern English-language compilations with the creator figure better known as Mbombo or Bumba in traditions attributed to the Bushoong (also written Bushongo), a Kuba-speaking peo…
Uthlanga
Uthlanga is a name associated with origin traditions among Nguni-speaking peoples of southern Africa, especially in discussions of Zulu mythology. The term is often connected with a primordial reed bed or source from whi…
Umvelinqangi
Umvelinqangi is a supreme or creator figure in some Zulu religious traditions of southern Africa. The name is commonly associated with the “First One” or “First Origin,” and Umvelinqangi is often described as a heavenly …
Unkulunkulu
Unkulunkulu is a major ancestral and creator figure in Zulu religious tradition. The name is commonly associated with the “greatest one,” the “very great ancestor,” or the first human ancestor, although its exact meaning…