Bomazi is the ancestor-god in the

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of the Bushongo people of the

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area. He was a light-skinned man who came from heaven and appeared to an elderly childless couple, telling them that they would have a daughter. They indeed had a daughter, and when she grew up, Bomazi married her. Their five sons became the chiefs of the five Bushongo tribes.

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