Unkulunkulu: Primeval Creator of the Zulu (South Africa)
Unkulunkulu, “The Great-Old-One” and the first ancestor of all humanity, is the primeval creator in Zulu cosmology. He is said to have risen from a vast reed bed (isihlahla), or in some traditions, from a rock or mound, before shaping humans, animals, and the earliest forms of life. His hands molded the world’s first people, giving them breath, language, laws,
