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Ruhanga
Ruhanga is a creator deity associated especially with the Banyankore (also called Banyankole) and related peoples of the Great Lakes region of East Africa, particularly in present-day southwestern Uganda. In traditional …
Ruwa
Ruwa is the supreme creator deity in the traditional religious thought of the Chagga people of northern Tanzania, especially in communities living on and around Mount Kilimanjaro. Ruwa is commonly associated with the sky…
Sagbata
Sagbata is a West African sacred figure associated particularly with the earth, illness and healing in Fon- and Ewe-speaking religious traditions of the region historically known as Dahomey, much of which is now southern…
Sakarabru
Sakarabru is an obscure name associated with African legendary tradition, but its identity is not securely established in the surviving English-language record. It is often described in modern compilations as a dangerous…
Sakpata
Sakpata is a major spirit of Vodun traditions in parts of West Africa, especially among Fon-speaking communities in present-day Benin and neighbouring areas of Togo, Ghana and Nigeria. He is strongly associated with the …
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…