When you see nkabi, you also see Mahungu (mpoka)/ When you see nkabi, you also see Mahungu
When Nzambi A Mpungu created humans
Nzambi did not create them as two different sexes
Nzambi created Mahungu.
Mahungu was neither male nor female; it is said that Mahungu possessed both natures, making them a perfect being.
Thus, although human, Mahungu was in a state of bliss, closely connected to Nzambi.
Nothing was forbidden to them, except approaching the ba dia Nzambi. Driven by curiosity, Mahungu circled around the tree. And there, Mahungu was split in two, the male human sex and the female human sex. Both had lost their original bliss.
They met at the tree, hoping to regain their former unity, but nothing came of it.
The original androgynous human being, created by Nzambi A Mpungu, enacting the myth of the creation of the human being.
Lumbu, the man, yearned for the loss of his feminine side, while Muzita, the woman, lamented her former masculine aspect.
Then each realized that in the other, it was possible to find the missing part of themselves.
Together, Lumbu and Muzita contemplated how to restore their unity, and that's when the idea of the union of bodies and senses came to them. How then to protect this new union?
After several unions, Muzita called the man her husband under the name N'lumi (the secretor of his semen), and Lumbu called the woman his wife M'buti (the one who begets).