Kambujanu

water-spirit · Mozambique · Southern Africa

Not independently attested: no source records a water spirit named 'Kambujanu'. The description instead summarizes the genuine Ronga Chipfalamfula, the 'River-Shutter' of Mozambique's Delagoa Bay — a whale-like or colossal catfish that opens and closes the waters, causing floods and droughts and parting the river for the heroine Chichinguane. The name should be corrected to Chipfalamfula.

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