After creating the world, he carefully placed the primordial Omumborombonga tree upon the Earth, from which Mukuru, the first human emerged. And then, like most of the African Supreme Gods, Njambi retreated to the safety of Heaven as soon as humans turned up on the scene. Now he’s another aloof Sky God who lives in the clouds and rules through spiritual wisdom alone, an omnipotent deity that doesn’t really do anything.

Although he occasionally rumbles and thunders, he tends to keep well out of the way. Perhaps he’s busy sending all that sun, rain, food, shelter and oxygen.

As his name is sacred, no-one bothers to invoke him except in very exceptional circumstances, and this is usually to thank him for services already rendered rather than asking for new ones. Basically he doesn’t get much attention apart from that of ecstatic lottery winners.

It’s left to the spirits of Mukuru and other ancestors to provide regular prayer-answering services.

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Article last revised on November 03, 2018 by Rowan Allen.
Editors: Peter J. Allen, Chas Saunders

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