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It is said that Njambe once took a form of a small man and appeared in front of a human. The human is a villager who was working in the forest. When Njambe encountered the villager, he offered two bundles that the villager can choose to take home. The first bundle is large and contained trinkets such
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The villager, who did not know who Njambe was, told him that he could not make the decision himself. So, he brought the two bundles home to his village and asked for the other villagers’ opinions. The female villagers saw and tried out the trinkets in the larger first bundle. Later, they chose to
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According to Weeks, Njambe is one of the names used to refer to the supreme god-figure worshipped by the Boloki people. In total, Weeks found that there were four commonly used names to refer to a supreme god figure, which may be represented by different or same deities:
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