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Visual depiction of Mulungu

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Vol. II · Polytheism · primordial

Mulungu

East African supreme creator


a being of light who ascended into the sky when fire was discovered, humanity left below to tend what the creator left behind

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
primordial

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.