Modern Influence Valencia College, on the creation myth, states:The dominant theme in this myth is that of creation out of the male principle. Bumba [M'Bombo]'s vomiting reminds us of the Egyptian High God's creation by spitting and seed spilling. The absence of the female principle here suggests a patrilineal culture. The fact that Bumba [M'Bombo] is white suggests that this is a late myth, affected, like so much African mythology, by the presence of the white race in colonial Africa.Thus Bushongo Mythology has been heavily influenced by modern cultures. Creation Myth In the beginning of existence, there was nothing but empty darkness. The only thing that existed in the world was a god named M'Bombo, and the world was yet to be created. Then, one day, M'Bombo fell ill, and vomited: out came the sun, the moon, and the stars. Yet he was still in terrible pain, and released nine creatures. Koy Bumba the leapord, Pongo Bumba the crested eagle, the crocodile, Ganda Bumba, and one little fish named Yo, then, old Kono Bumba, the tortoise, and Tsetse, the lightning, swift, deadly, and beautiful like the leopard, then the white heron, Nyanyi Bumba, also one beetle, and the goat named Budi.Oxford URL Then, last of all, humans came from M'Bombo. And then his creations took what they had and transformed it into the world today. The heron created the birds of the world, except the kite. The crocodile shaped serpents and the iguana. Then, the goat produced eveyr beast with horns. Yo, the small fish, brought all the fish of the seas and waters. The beetle created insects. Then the serpents in their turn made grasshoppers, and the iguana made the creatures without horns.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% But the three sons of M'Bombo said they would finish the world. The first, Nyonye Ngana, made the white ants; but she was not equal to the task, and died of it.The ants, however, thankful for life and being, went searching for black earth in the depths of the world and covered the barren sands to bury and honour their creator. Chonganda, the second son, brought forth a marvellous living plant from which all the trees and grasses and flowers and plants in the world have sprung. The third son, Chedi Bumba, wanted something different, but for all his trying made only the bird called the kite. Of all the creatures, Tsetse, lightning, was the only trouble-maker. She stirred up so much trouble that M'Bombo chased her into the sky. Then mankind was without fire until M'Bombo showed the people how to draw fire out of trees, and showed them how to make the firedrill and liberate it. Sometimes today Tsete still leaps down and strikes the earth and causes damage.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% When at last the work of creation was finished, M'Bombo walked through the peaceful villages and said to the people, "Behold these wonders, they belong to you"Mircea Eliade, Gods. Goddesses, and Myths of creation (New York, 1974), pp. 91-92 Thus from Bumba, the First Ancestor, came forth all the wonders that we see and hold and use, and all the brotherhood of beasts and man. References Category: Bantu mythology 2. Valencia College, URL 3. Mircea Eliade, Gods. Goddesses, and Myths of creation (New York, 1974), pp. 91-92.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 4. Oxford URL
Modern influence Valencia College, on the creation myth, states:The dominant theme in this myth is that of creation out of the male principle. Bumba [M'Bombo]'s vomiting reminds us of the Egyptian High God's creation by spitting and seed spilling. The absence of the female principle here suggests a patrilineal culture. The fact that Bumba [M'Bombo] is white suggests that this is a late myth, affected, like so much African mythology, by the presence of the white race in colonial Africa.Thus Bushongo Mythology has been heavily influenced by modern cultures. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% References Category: %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% B
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Creation Myth In the beginning of existence, there was nothing but empty darkness. The only thing that existed in the world was a god named M'Bombo, and the world was yet to be created. Then, one day, M'Bombo fell ill, and vomited: out came the sun, the moon, and the stars. Yet he was still in terrible pain, and released nine creatures. Koy Bumba the leapord, Pongo Bumba the crested eagle, the crocodile, Ganda Bumba, and one little fish named Yo, then, old Kono Bumba, the tortoise, and Tsetse, the lightning, swift, deadly, and beautiful like the leopard, then the white heron, Nyanyi Bumba, also one beetle, and the goat named Budi.Oxford URL
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Then, last of all, humans came from M'Bombo. And then his creations took what they had and transformed it into the world today. The heron created the birds of the world, except the kite. The crocodile shaped serpents and the iguana. Then, the goat produced eveyr beast with horns. Yo, the small fish, brought all the fish of the seas and waters. The beetle created insects. Then the serpents in their turn made grasshoppers, and the iguana made the creatures without horns.
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But the three sons of M'Bombo said they would finish the world. The first, Nyonye Ngana, made the white ants; but she was not equal to the task, and died of it.The ants, however, thankful for life and being, went searching for black earth in the depths of the world and covered the barren sands to bury and honour their creator. Chonganda, the second son, brought forth a marvellous living plant from which all the trees and grasses and flowers and plants in the world have sprung. The third son, Chedi Bumba, wanted something different, but for all his trying made only the bird called the kite.
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Of all the creatures, Tsetse, lightning, was the only trouble-maker. She stirred up so much trouble that M'Bombo chased her into the sky. Then mankind was without fire until M'Bombo showed the people how to draw fire out of trees, and showed them how to make the firedrill and liberate it. Sometimes today Tsete still leaps down and strikes the earth and causes damage.
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When at last the work of creation was finished, M'Bombo walked through the peaceful villages and said to the people, "Behold these wonders, they belong to you"Mircea Eliade, Gods. Goddesses, and Myths of creation (New York, 1974), pp. 91-92 Thus from Bumba, the First Ancestor, came forth all the wonders that we see and hold and use, and all the brotherhood of beasts and man.
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2. Valencia College, URL 3. Mircea Eliade, Gods. Goddesses, and Myths of creation (New York, 1974), pp. 91-92.
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