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Updated: May 5, 2025
As Senhor Candido holds the office of judge in all the disputes of the natives, and knows their language perfectly, his statement may be relied on that all the natives of this region have a clear idea of a Supreme Being, the maker and governor of all things. He is named "Morimo", "Molungo", "Reza", "Mpambe", in the different dialects spoken.
+645+. Other such deities are reported in South Africa, as the Qamata of the Xosa, Morimo of the Bakuana, and farther north Molungu. On the West Coast also, in Ashanti, Dahomi, and Yoruba, a number of deities exist which were in all probability originally local. Such appears to be the character of certain gods of the non-Aryan tribes of India, as the Kolarian Sunthals and Koles.
This word, with the spiritual idea corresponding to it, Moffat found to have vanished from the language of the present generation, although here and there he could meet with an old man, scarcely one or two in a thousand, who remembered in his youth to have heard speak of 'Morimo'; and this word, once so deeply significant, only survived now in the spells and charms of the so- called rainmakers and sorcerers, who misused it to designate a fabulous ghost, of whom they told the absurdest and most contradictory things.
The Bechuanas, a Caffre tribe, employed formerly the word 'Morimo, to designate 'Him that is above' or 'Him that is in heaven' and attached to the word the notion of a supreme Divine Being.
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