Editing Bushongo religion (section)

== Cosmology ==
According to the Bushongo creation myth, the only thing that existed in the world originally was a god named M'Bombo. Having become ill, M'Bombo vomited: out the sun, the moon, the stars, various animals and Tsetse the lightning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095535192|title=Bumba Vomits Up the Universe|website=[[Oxford University Press|Oxford Reference]]|access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref> Finally, M'Bombo vomited out humans. The animals that M'Bombo had vomited out earlier created other animals.

The three sons of M'Bombo attempted to finish the creation of the world. The first, Nyonye Ngana, made white ants but was not equal to the task and died as a result. The ants, however, thankful for life, went searching for black earth and covered the barren sands to bury and honour their creator. Chonganda, the second son, brought forth a plant from which all other plants in the world are descended. The third son, Chedi Bumba, only succeeded in creating the bird called the [[Kite (bird)|kite]]. 

Tsetse the lightning, proved to be a trouble-maker. Consequently, M'Bombo chased her into the sky, leaving mankind without fire until he later showed people how to draw fire out of trees.

When the work of creation was completed, M'Bombo walked through the villages and said to the people, "Behold these wonders, they belong to you"<ref>[[Mircea Eliade]], Gods. Goddesses, and Myths of creation (New York, 1974), pp. 91-92</ref>