Ntangu

Ntangu is the Kongo spirit of the sun and of time itself, understood in traditional Kongo cosmology as the sibling of Ngonde, the spirit of the moon. Together Ntangu and Ngonde embody the Kongo religious conception of time as cyclical, marked by the alternation of day and night and by the passage of the sun and moon across the sky. As the spirit of time as well as the sun, Ntangu is bound up with the Kongo cosmogram, the four-moment cycle of sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight that structures traditional Kongo religious thought about the life cycle and the relationship between the living and the dead.