#nzambi

[dolunay01]

Beni ölüme terk ettiler, sanırım asla öğrenemeyecekler. Ne zaman kırılsam, yakacak daha çok acı var...

[kubominero]

NZAMBI, the origin of all zombie folklore.

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ンザンビ by B.c.N.y.

[nasuverse-most-breedable-tourney]

Side A, Round 2 (Match 2) *Clash of Casters*

Nzambi vs. Queen of Sheba

Nzambi

Queen of Sheba

Voting ended onJun 10, 2023

On the left: The Earth Mother Goddess and the high goddess of the Vili people of the Congo, Africa, whose name became the root word for zombies and the origin of all zombie folklore. As a Servant, her image was distorted due to the influence of the folklore surrounding her, becoming a self-proclaimed necromancer who hunts for command spells and manipulates the dead. Nzambi

On the right: A queen so legendary that everyone has heard her name at least once. And yet, she remains an enigmatic being, her identity shrouded with mystery. And now here she is in Chaldea, transcending ages and fantasy. All to fulfill a single, unforgettable promise. We have Queen of Sheba

[thegoodthegrandandtheugly]

[typemoonsmashorpass]

Nzambi

smash

pass

Voting ended onMar 11, 2024

[kemetic-dreams]

Engolo or NGolo (Kikongo word meaning strength, power) is a performance of ritual combat by various ethnic groups around the Cunene River in southern Angola. The style of fighting involves various kicks, dodges, and leg sweeps, with an emphasis on inverted positions, i.e. with one or more hands on the ground. The first mention of Engolo in literature was made by Albano Neves e Sousa in a set of drawings demonstrating various techniques and their similarities to the Afro-Brazilian art form of Capoeira in the 1960s. Engolo is one of several African martial arts of the African Diaspora in the Americas.

Neves e Sousa described Engolo as part of a rite of passage, Omuhelo, between young boys vying for a bride in the contest, and whose techniques derived from the peculiar way in which Zebras fight amongst themselves. Research carried out by Dr. TJ Desch Obi finds that Engolo itself is not strictly performed for any one ritual, but as an element in various public and private performances.

In his book Fighting for Honor, as well as his article "Combat and Crossing of the Kalunga", Desch Obi draws parallels between the circle space used in the Engolo and the inverted techniques with the Kalunga cosmology, in which the spirit–ancestor world is inverted as a world of opposites: where men walk on their feet, the spirits walk on their hands, where men are black, the spirits are white, where men reach their peak physical abilities in life, the ancestors reach their peak spirituality. He states that men in performing Engolo with its inverted positions connect themselves physically and spiritually with the ancestors, and with specific ancestral warriors of the past.

The Kalunga line is a watery boundary between the world of the living and the dead in religious traditions of the Congo region. The word Kalunga is Kikongo for "threshold between worlds". The Kalunga line is often associated with bodies of water, with the Atlantic Ocean being prominent.They believed the soul after death traveled the path of the sun as it set in the west. The enslaved believed they were being taken to the land of the dead, never to return. Thus the Kalunga line became known as a line under the Atlantic Ocean where the living became the dead and the only way back to life was to recross the line. Some religions today still make reference to the Kalunga Line believing that the soul of an African-American travels back to Africa upon death and re-enters the world of the spiritually living although the body has passed on.

Kalunga was considered like a goddess or more commonly a god ; the guardian of border between the world of living and dead, who was the Atlantic sea. He was welcoming dead in Kalunga, the land of death, under the sea. Kalunga was also one of names of Nzambi a Mpungu, the high creator.

[djunk411]

Looks like despite the fanservice-y pose in the other pic of her going around, Nzambi’s cloak generally covers her fairly well. Looks much cooler this way lol

Also, apparently she has a habit of cutting off people’s body parts with their command spells and can turn people and even Servants into zombies with Voodoo due to her name being the origin of the term. She can also eat the command seals to heal herself, which also repairs her clothes if damaged.