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Also known as MBOMBO, MBONGO

In the beginning there was only darkness, water and the great God Bumba.

There was a serious rumble in Bumba's tum and he felt quite ill, in fact, he'd been off color for quite a while. He had no-one to talk to and being constantly up to his knees in water and total darkness wasn't helping. He grumbled, then stumbled and vomited up the sun. Light burst forth into the universe which dried up some of the water revealing the earth. Then he heaved up the moon and stars.

Things were looking up. There was water and land, day and night and warmth. But there was still something missing, which was lucky because he felt another heave coming on ...

With an almigty wrench up came a selection of animals with humans as the encore. He felt so much better, which is hardly suprising since he got rid of that little lot! His stomach ache had gone, the animals were evolving to fill the world with all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures and were pretty well behaved ... all except Tsetse Bumba who's nasty habit of setting fire to things was a little troublesome.

With his work seemingly done and feeling content, Bumba taught humans how to make fire then left his three sons - Nyonye-Ngana, Chonganda and Chedi-Bumba - to tie up a few loose ends then retired to heaven, and as far as I know his tummy hasn't bothered him since.

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'BUMBA' - African entry : 09 January 2009
Page last modified on 30 Aug 2010
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