H31. Death: man and luminaries. .11. (.12.) .13.

God summons several characters, including humans and heavenly bodies, and makes man mortal and luminaries immortal.

Chokwe, denghese, upoto, teke, ketha, luba, luba, luba-kasai, bena lulua, ben koshi, bena-matembo, songe, (ashanti, dan), acholi.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Chokwe: Abrahamsson 1951:51 [Kalunga sent a son to the Sun, the Month, the Stars, Savannah, the Forest, and man to give him a goat; everyone gave him, but the man was indignant that he received nothing in return, killed K.'s son; to find the murderer, K. told everyone to climb into the hole; the innocent will come out, the culprit will remain in it; everyone went out, but the man and dog remained in the hole, now dying], 52 [Frobenius; Kalunga summoned the Snake, the Elephant, the Man, the Sun, the Moon; the Snake, the Elephant asked for a hand (and legs); after learning that the snake was already biting passers-by and the elephant was crushing bananas, K. refused them; the man stole oil; K. made them all mortals; he was satisfied with the Sun and Moon, they do not die]; Baumann in Anpetkova-Sharova 1975 [Nzambi-Kalunga created the Sun, Moon and man; sent Congo's son to visit them; Sun, The moon received him well, the man killed and ate it; for this, NC made people mortal]: 278-279; retelling in Abrahamsson 1951 [the image of the Congo as the son of God or the first man in Zaire and Angola could influence Portuguese missionaries]: 51-52; denghese [Nzakomba has three children-the Sun, the Moon, the man; N. died, called the children to him; Brother Sun and Sister Moon immediately appeared, and the man lingered analyzing animal spores; N. ordered the first two to live forever and people to die; animals became wild]: Abrahamsson 1951:14; Upoto [Libanza summoned the people of the moon and the people of the earth; the lunar ones came immediately received eternal life; only once a month do they disappear, but are reborn; earthly ones have lingered and become mortal]: Abrahamsson 1951:14; teke [God allowed the Sun, the Month, and man to enter his house in the village, but do not look at the women, take cassava (two mouthfuls) in your mouth no more than twice, drink no more than two sips of water; then ordered them to go down into the hole; Sun, Month demonstrated that listened to God, for they ascended in the east and west; the man disobeyed and stayed in the pit (=grave)]: Andersson in Abrahamsson 1951:49; keta [Fidi Mukullu told the Sun, the Month, Man to bring wine, ordered not to drink; ordered everyone to climb into a hole; The sun rose a day later, a month later, a month later, the man died because he drank wine]: Abrahamsson 1951:52-53; luba: Abrahamsson 1951:39 [Mvidi Mukulu created a man with a woman, the sun, the moon; another invited him to check whether the creations were obedient, try to give them forbidden bananas; the Sun and the Moon were asleep, but the dog guard drove away those who came; guarding people slept; people were given bananas, they ate; MM made them mortal, told them to work, and the Sun and Moon sent them to heaven; every month the Moon dies for three days, but then revives (=Baumann 1936: 281)], 49 [God created the Sun, the Month, a man and a woman; planted two bananas, did not order the fruits to be picked; people picked; God killed, buried the Sun, it rose in the morning, God understood that the Sun was not to blame; the same with the Month (went up on the third day); the killed and buried man did not rise], 50 [Frobenius; on the border with Songe, from Ben; Fidi Mukullu called on the Sun, the Month, the Pleiades, a man, tells everyone to bring palm wine, forbiding to drink it; everyone is buried - if he did not drink, he will come to life; the Sun rises the next day, the Month in a month, the Pleiades in a year; the person died forever]; luba (shaba?) [God created the Sun, Moon, Man; made palm wine, left, forbidding it to drink on pain of death; all three drank with their children, their children died, they began to cry; Man lied that cries just like that, and the Sun and Moon confessed to what they did; their children came to life, the child of the Sun rose in the east, the Moon in the west; Man's child did not come to life, people became mortal]: Theuws 1954:69-72 in Studstill 1984:125; luba-kasai [during the dry season, God created Kongolo ka Mukanda ("spiral of law") with a human head, body parts of various animals; then created man and woman, animals; more There used to be God's messenger Maweja and three other spirits; two of them persuaded a man and a woman to eat plants forbidden by God; KM met a woman in front of a man, then told her to copulate man (var.: KM has a hermaphrodite, copulated with both); God told the Sun, the Month, Man, the Man's Star to bring palm wine; sedated them; the Sun woke up the next day, a month later; The man and his Star had to be woken up; they violated the ban not to drink palm wine, became mortal; M. rebelled against God, other spirits, led by his son Tschame and Longbeard, drove God's orders the rebels were driven out of the sky like game; in the west, the four Orion stars forming a quadrangle - the four great spirits of the summer sky; the three stars of the Orion Belt - a dog (Long-bearded), a hunter (son of the spirit Tshame), game (M.); M. and other spirits fell towards the Pleiades ("lightning farmer"); M. - in the lower world in the west; God turned KM into the main swamp serpent, his breath was a rainbow]: Fourche, Morlighem 1973:105-127 at Studstill 1984:127-128; (cf. bast (Hemba) [God created Heaven, Earth, man, woman; Man did not have a liver so he could not reproduce; God's children Mother Sun, Mother Moon, Mother Darkness, Mother Rain everyone wanted to rule; God told the Sun to alternate with Rain, the Moon to dilute the Darkness; sent a fifth child-the liver, who entered Man, and people began to give birth to children]: Vandermeiren 1910:228-229 in Studstill 1984:125-126); bena lulua [God tells the Sun, the Month, man to take palm wine to Calebas from east to west, forbid drinking; the Sun carried in a day, a month for a little longer, man, whom the dog persuaded, drank; God made the Sun and the Month eternal, and man mortal, drove the dog away, the man did not drink beer anymore]: Abrahamsson 1951:50; Ben Koshi [Fidi Mukullu sent the Sun, A month, a man to bring palm wine, forbid drinking on the way; the man drank; FM dug three holes, told everyone to go down into them; the Sun was supposed to come out in a day, a month in two, a man in six; The Sun and the Month are out, man has rotted]: Abrahamsson 1951:51; bena-matembo and songe [Fidi Mukullu told the Sun, Moon, Man to bring bananas, forbid them to eat them; he tested everyone by telling climb into a hole; The sun rose every other day, the Moon a month later, Man did not rise because he ate bananas; became mortal]: Abrahamsson 1951:52.

(Wed. West Africa. Ashanti [God sends Anansa (a spider trickster) to summon his sons named Dawn, Month and Darkness; whoever guesses the name of a particular food will be in charge; Darkness gives A. water, the Month gives palm water wine, Dawn feeds mutton; A. tells him that the name of the food is Bombo; Dawn gives the right answer, appointed God's heir]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1937, No. 18:63-64; given [humans and spiders first were the same, their children played with each other; God consistently makes Rain, Sun, Darkness, Months older over people; people suffer from the first three, rejoice in the light of the moon, choose the Month as their patron ]: Himmelheber, Himmelheber 1958:237).

Sudan-East Africa. Acholi [God called the Sun, Month, Stars, and Man to taste the plant of life and gain immortality; when everyone came, God was told that man was halfway and was in no hurry; God in He gave everything to the luminaries with anger, but he made man mortal]: Grove in Boccassino 1938:92 (retelling in Abrahamsson 1951:18, in Scheub 2000:85).