Unkulunkulu
c. 1600 CE – 2026 CEattested
KwaZulu
- Zulu
Zulu first man and ancestor, who came out of a reed bed and taught people to live. He sent the chameleon to announce that humans would not die, then a lizard with the opposite message, and the lizard was faster.
Known for
- emergence from the reeds
- the slow chameleon
- the first ancestor rather than a creator
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.