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Central and Southern African Pantheons

The divine orders of the Bantu, Khoisan and related peoples of Central and Southern Africa, among them the Luba, Zande, Mbuti, Ndembu, Fang, Xhosa, Sotho-Tswana, Khoikhoi and Chewa. A pantheon belongs here when its cited article describes the creator, ancestors and spirits of a people of the Congo basin, the Zambezi region or southern Africa. It excludes the peoples of West Africa and of the East African lakes and Nile valley, which have their own groups.

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Mbuti mythology (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Mbuti, Introduction, sentence 1
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Mbuti (Bambuti) mythology is the mythology of the African Mbuti (also known as Bambuti) The most important god of the Bambuti pantheon is Khonvoum (also Khonuum, Kmvoum, Chorum), a god of the hunt who wields a bow made from two snakes that together appear to humans as a rainbow.
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Baluba religion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Luba, Introduction, sentence 2
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Their creator deity's name is Kabezya-Mpungu.
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