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Spirit above (Zambi-a-npungo): Battel tells us that the King of Loango was called
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Sambee and Pango, which mean God. The Abbé Proyart terms the Supreme
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Zambi, and applies Zambi-a-n-pongou to a species of malady brought on by perjury. He also notices the Manichæan idea of Zambi-a-Nbi, or bad-God, drawing the fine distinction of European belief in a deity supremely good, who permits evil without participating in it. But the dualism of moral light and darkness, noticed by all travellers,[FN#25] is a bonâ fide existence with Africans, and the missionaries converted the Angolan
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Cariapemba
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First Expedition, p. 641), finds the word general amongst the Balonda, or people of Lunda: with the
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Cazembes the word is
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Pambi, or
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Liza, and
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O Muata Cazembe (p. 297) mentions the proverb,
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Ao Pambi e ao Mambi (the King) nada iguala. In the
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Vocabulario da lingua Cafrial we see (p. 469) that
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Murungo means God or thunder. It is the rudimental idea of the great Zeus, which the Greeks worked out, the God of Æther, the eternal, omnipotent, and omniscient,
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the Unknown and Unknowable, concerning whom St. Paul quoted Aristæus on Mars' Hill. But the African brain naturally confused it with a something gross and material: thus Nzambi-a-Npungu is especially the lightning god. Cariambemba is, properly, Kadi Mpemba or Ntangwa, the being that slays mankind: Merolla describes it as an
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and the word is also applied to the owl, here as in Dahome the object of superstition. I could trace no sign of worship paid to the sun (Tangwa or Muinyi), but there are multitudes of minor gods, probably deified ghosts, haunting particular places. Thus,
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Simbi presides over villages and the
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Tadi Nzazhi,