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by Micha F. Lindemans

The supreme god and creator of the Boshongo, a people in Zaire. In the beginning there was only darkness and water, and Bumba, racked with stomach pain, vomited up first the sun, than the moon, the earth, and all living creatures, the last of whom was mankind.