Mwindo

deity African single tradition · 2

Mwindo is a culture hero seeking revenge against his father, Shemwindo. He is warned by Kahindo not to accept food or drink from Muisa, or he will be forced to remain in the land of the dead forever. Mwindo is tasked by Muisa to grow a banana forest and harvest all the fruit in a day in order to retrieve his father.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

Relationships

allied with
Kahindo
enemy of
Muisa
child of
Shemwindo

Expand to full subgraph →

Sources

Source passages

“The culture hero Mwindo is out for revenge against his father, who escapes punishment by entering the underworld through a hole in the ground made from an uprooted kikota. He makes a deal with Muisa to harbor him there, but Mwindo follows him.”

#2440 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Mwindo”

#2708 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5