The Bushongo are an ethnic group from the Congo River

Congo River

The Congo River is a river in Africa, and is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of . It is the second largest river in the world by volume of water discharged, though it has only one-fifth the volume of the world's largest river, the Amazon...

 and surrounding areas. The creation god in Bushongo mythology is called Bumba. The god Bumba is said to have vomited forth the sun

Sun

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, moon

Moon

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, earth

Earth

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, plant

Plant

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s and animal

Animal

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s, and then human

Human

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ity. Bomazi

Bomazi

Bomazi is the ancestor-god in the mythology of the Bushongo people of the Congo River 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...

is the ancestor-god of the Bushongo.

The Bushongo creation story was made into an animated film called Throwing up the Earth, directed and animated by Margriet Westerhof of the Netherlands.