Kuba Chief's House, Bushongo, Zaïre, 1928
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Kuba Chief's House, Bushongo, Zaïre, 1928
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BUSHONGO ─ “Bushongo, or the Kingdom of Kuba, was an African civilization that lived from 1625 C.E. to 1884 C.E. They lived in Central Africa.” ─ Kuba Art ─ Bushongo Creation Myth ─ Bumba in Bushongo Myth
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NGOMBE ─ “The Ngombe are a Bantu linguistic group. They are native to the Democratic Republic of Congo.” ─ Akongo in Ngombe Mythology
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KUBA/BUSHONGO CULTURE, MODERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - PWOOM ITOK MASK
The Bushongo or Songora are an ethnic group from the Congo River and surrounding areas. The creation god(or chembe) in Bushongo mythology is called Bumba. He existed alone in darkness, the world consisting only of water. The god Bumba was said to appear like a gigantic man in form and white in color. The creation took place when he vomited forth the sun, moon, earth, plants and animals, and then humanity. Bomazi is the ancestor-god of the Bushongo.
Uma Cosmogonia Africana
Um relato dos Bushongo, uma tribo bantu central da região de Kasai.
No início, na escuridão, não havia nada além de água. E Bumba estava sozinho.
Um dia, Bumba sentiu uma dor terrível. Ele vomitou, se esforçou e vomitou o sol. Depois disso, a luz se espalhou por tudo. O calor do sol secou a água até que as bordas negras do mundo começaram a aparecer. Bancos de areia e recifes negros podiam ser vistos. Mas não havia seres vivos.
Bumba vomitou a lua e depois as estrelas, e depois disso a noite também teve sua luz.
Bumba ainda sentia dor. Ele se esforçou novamente e nove seres viventes surgiram; o leopardo chamado Koy Bumba, e Pongo Bumba, a águia-de-crista, o crocodilo Ganda Bumba, e um peixinho chamado Yo; em seguida, o velho Kono Bumba, a tartaruga, e Tsé-tsé, o relâmpago, veloz, mortal, belo como o leopardo, depois a garça-branca, Nyanyi Bumba, também um besouro, e a cabra chamada Budi.
Por último, surgiram os homens. Havia muitos homens, mas apenas um era branco como Bumba. Seu nome era Loko Yima.
As próprias criaturas então criaram todas as criaturas. A garça criou todas as aves do céu, exceto o milhafre. Ela não fez o milhafre. O crocodilo criou as serpentes e a iguana. A cabra produziu todos os animais com chifres. Yo, o pequeno peixe, gerou todos os peixes de todos os mares e águas. O besouro criou os insetos.
Então as serpentes, por sua vez, criaram os gafanhotos, e a iguana criou as criaturas sem chifres.
Então os três filhos de Bumba disseram que acabariam com o mundo. O primeiro, Nyonye Ngana, criou as formigas brancas; mas não estava à altura da tarefa e morreu por causa disso. As formigas, no entanto, gratas pela vida e pelo ser, foram em busca de terra preta nas profundezas do mundo e cobriram as areias áridas para enterrar e honrar seu criador.
Chonganda, o segundo filho, produziu uma planta viva maravilhosa da qual brotaram todas as árvores, gramas, flores e plantas do mundo. O terceiro filho, Chedi Bumba, queria algo diferente, mas, apesar de todos os seus esforços, criou apenas o pássaro chamado pipa.
De todas as criaturas, Tsé-tsé, o relâmpago, era a única encrenqueira. Ela causava tantos problemas que Bumba a perseguiu até o céu. Então, a humanidade ficou sem fogo até que Bumba mostrou ao povo como extrair fogo das árvores. "Há fogo em cada árvore", disse-lhes, e mostrou-lhes como fazer o moinho de fogo e liberá-lo. Às vezes, hoje, Tsé-tsé ainda salta, atinge a terra e causa danos.
Quando finalmente a obra da criação foi concluída, Bumba caminhou pelas pacíficas aldeias e disse ao povo: "Contemplem estas maravilhas. Elas pertencem a vocês." Assim, de Bumba, o Criador, o Primeiro Ancestral, surgiram todas as maravilhas que vemos, possuímos e usamos, e toda a irmandade dos animais e do homem.
The Beginning - Maria Leach
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Sketches for the creation myth series I'm working on. This is a legend of creation from the Bushongo people of the Congo. Their creator is a god named Bumba who created the world by vomiting out the sun, moon, stars, lightening, nine animals and one man.