Coyote Deity of Shona

deity · Zimbabwe · Southern Africa

Not independently attested. Coyotes are absent from Zimbabwe, and no Shona deity of the coyote appears in the ethnographic record; the input reinterprets the animal as a 'local jackal,' which is not a Shona god either. Shona cosmology centres on Mwari, the vadzimu ancestors and Nyami Nyami of the Zambezi; no coyote or jackal deity is named.

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