The divine in Zulu tradition

This small group holds figures of the traditional religion of the Zulu people of southern Africa. As in many Southern Bantu traditions, worship centres less on a pantheon of gods than on a remote supreme being together with the ancestral spirits (amadlozi) who mediate between the living and the divine.

The browser will find the sky and creator figure Unkulunkulu, the first ancestor and source of humankind, and related powers such as the sky-princess Nomkhubulwane associated with rain and fertility. The atlas notes that the ancestral cult, rather than a developed pantheon, is the living heart of the tradition.