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** Itonde owned an Elefo (a type of bell with mysterious symbols on it). The bell is called "the World". It contains all things and brings Itonde whatever he likes: wealth, health, fish, storms, lightning, weapons, and much more.
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** Itonde owned an Elefo (a type of bell with mysterious symbols on it). The bell is called "the World". It contains all things and brings Itonde whatever he likes: wealth, health, fish, storms, lightning, weapons, peace, war, poverty, languages, animals, rain, drought, strength, weakness, and much more.
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* TrialByOrdeal: Itonde proves he is Lonkundo's son by drinking poison and surviving.
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* CastingAShadow: Itonde isn't fond of sunlight, so he created darkness shortly before he was born. The seemingly endless night scared his parents so they traveled until they saw light again.
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* EnfantTerrible: Itonde left his mother's womb at night to eat the extra rats his father Yonjwa caught for her.
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* GodOfTheDead: Itonde was the god of death.
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** Itonde owned an Elefo (a type of bell with mysterious symbols on it). The bell is called "the World". It contains all things and brings Itonde whatever he likes: wealth, health, fish, storms, lightning, weapons, and much more.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Itonde loves fried rats.
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** Eyonga craved fried rats while she was pregnant.
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** Eyonga had a bag of mysteries containing a mysterious powder. It could bring back the dead and save people from emergencies. It could swallow up an entire tribe and fly them over the forest, vomiting them back out safely. The bag had froglike qualities.
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** Eyonga had a bag of mysteries containing a mysterious powder. It could bring back the dead and save people from emergencies. It could swallow up an entire tribe and fly them over the forest, vomiting them back out safely. The bag had froglike qualities. Eyonga once asked it to guide herself, her husband, and their slaves home so it hopped before them.
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** Eyonga had a bag of mysteries containing a mysterious powder. It could bring back the dead and save people from emergencies. It could swallow up an entire tribe and fly them over the forest, vomiting them back out safely.
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** Eyonga had a bag of mysteries containing a mysterious powder. It could bring back the dead and save people from emergencies. It could swallow up an entire tribe and fly them over the forest, vomiting them back out safely. The bag had froglike qualities.
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** Eyonga had a bag of mysteries containing a mysterious powder. It could bring back the dead and save people from emergencies. It could swallow up an entire tribe and fly them over the forest, vomiting them back out safely.
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* AmazonChaser: Yonjwa and Itonde were both this, they actively sought out big mighty girls.
** The Mongo ideal of feminine beauty are big stout women, with plentiful flesh to grasp and a physique for tough manual labor.
* AmazonianBeauty: Eyonga and Mbombe (when they aren't treated as the same character) were pursued by many men throughout the lands because of this trope. Eyonga's title was Ondefetana (meaning "the Champion"). Her total lack of shyness when proclaiming who she is was considered charming by Yonjwa, who searched for her among a group of chattering girls.
** The Mongo ideal of feminine beauty are big stout women, with plentiful flesh to grasp and a physique for tough manual labor.
* AmazonianBeauty: Eyonga and Mbombe (when they aren't treated as the same character) were pursued by many men throughout the lands because of this trope. Eyonga's title was Ondefetana (meaning "the Champion"). Her total lack of shyness when proclaiming who she is was considered charming by Yonjwa, who searched for her among a group of chattering girls.
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* BestHerToBedHer: Eyonga/Mbombe refused to marry any man who could not defeat her in oil wrestling. Eyonga was beaten by Yonjwa and Mbombe was beaten by Ilele.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After hurting the feelings of his wives Bonduwa and Ilankaka, Lonkundo felt great remorse. He reconciled with Bonduwa at least and built her the finest house in the village, and fully acknowledged his firstborn son Yonjwa, offering to pay whatever bride-price the boy needed.
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** Ilankaka owned a pot filled with magical fire-sticks. She could transform each stick into valuable treasures.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: After Lonkundo drove his wife Bonduwa to the edge of the settlement, he and his favorite wife Ilankaka enjoyed the palm nuts which grew from her magic tree. Londkundo enjoyed the nuts so much he tried to share them with his other wives and children. Ilankaka became angry and said the nuts were only for him and herself. Lonkundo lost his temper and insulted her infertility. Heartbroken, Ilankaka collected her things and never returned.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Lonkundo's wife Bonduwa (who bore his firstborn son Yonjwa) was given a small shabby hut by him while all his other wives (especially the princess of flame Ilankaka) got wonderful houses. Lonkundo dismissed her complaints and told her she ought to take what she is offered or he would take it away. Ilankaka was delighted by this and planted the magic nut her father had given her "for when you have a husband who truly loves you".
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* HumanSacrifice: After migrating from their village due to jealous neighbors, Lonkundo and Ilankaka ran into the man who had lured her into the jungle and abandoned her. Lonkundo caught him and made the man a slave. They sacrificed him to sanctify their new village.
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* HaremSeeker: By proxy in the case of Lonkundo. His wife Ilankaka insisted he marry as many women as possible to show off his status, and she actively helped him get more brides.
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* AbductionIsLove: Lonkundo accidentally caught Ilánkaka in one of his traps after a strange dream. She told him her father was a wealthy chief who could pay him very much, but Lonkundo preferred to claim her as his new bride.
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* AbductionIsLove: Lonkundo accidentally caught Ilánkaka in one of his traps after a strange dream. She told him her father was a wealthy chief named Esombyankaka who could pay him very much, but Lonkundo preferred to claim her as his new bride.
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* MeaningfulRename: Yendembe changed his name to Lonkundo after killing his father Bokele.
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* Patricide: When Bokele admitted to his son Yendembe that he had slain his mother Bolumbu in a blind rage over his death, Bokele refused to forgive him and slew him with a spear.
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** The Ntomba "Molumbu" is the Nkundo "Bolumbu".
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* GreenThumb: Bokele made vines around a village grow rapidly to restrain all the inhabitants.
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* UnstoppableRage: Bokele went crazy after he learned his son Yendembe has been killed and saw his dead body wrapped up in leaves, having been brought along the river for him to heal. He massacred the entire village including the boatmen who brought the body, his wife, and his mother-in-law.
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* GreenThumb: Bokele made vines around a village grow rapidly to restrain all the inhabitants.
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* MeaningfulName: Yendembe literally means "take no orders".
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* AutoRevive: Kangili-Kangili was Bokele's magic powder he gifted to his son Yendembe. It could bring the dead back to life by merely placing it in their nose and making them sneeze.
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* {{Geas}}: Yendembe had a taboo under which he could never be ordered to do anything, or he would die. He had to be asked or invited to do things. His maternal grandmother killed him accidentally by ordering him to cut her some banana bunches from a tree, and his mother Bolumbu revived him with Kangili-Kangili. His grandmother later killed him again but burned Kangili-Kangili while cleaning.
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* NobleBirdOfPrey: Nkombe the hawk carries the sun from the east to the west each day.
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* TheBeastMaster: Bokele traveled with a party composed of wasps to sting his enemies, the wizard turtle Nkulu to guide the way, the hawk Nkombe to help carry off the sun, and a mouse to eavesdrop on his enemies.
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* TheBeastMaster: Bokele traveled with a party composed of wasps to sting his enemies, the wizard turtle Nkulu to guide the way, the hawk Nkombe to help carry off the sun, and a mouse to eavesdrop on his enemies. He also had a leopard and baboon join the crew.
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* InescapableNet: Mokulaka's men tried to catch Bokele's canoe with a fish net and failed.
* OverlordJr: Yakalaki was the son of Mokulaka. When he heard news of B/Mokele trying to buy the sun from them he rushed to his father's aid with an army of human warriors and Elokos. They chased Bokele and his companions back to their boat once the sun was stolen.
* ScaryStingingSwarm: Bokele's wasps engulfed Yakalaki's army and stung them mercilessly. However the quick-thinking army started fires and smoked the wasps into being more calm so they could be killed.
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* WackyCravings: A common theme in Mongo lore. A husband gets himself into trouble trying to satisfy the craving of a pregnant wife, often falling victim to the owner of the food (usually Sau fruit) or some other peril.
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* WackyCravings: A common theme in Mongo lore. A husband gets himself into trouble trying to satisfy the craving of a pregnant wife, often falling victim to the owner of the food (usually Sau fruit) or some other peril.peril.
* WickedWasps: Subverted. They were allies of Bokele and helped him fight Yakalaki's army.
* WickedWasps: Subverted. They were allies of Bokele and helped him fight Yakalaki's army.
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* HighHeelFaceTurn: Mokulaka's daughter Motumbu/Bolumbu was ordered to poison Bokele. But she instead fell in love with him, dumped the poison on the ground, and asked to be his wife.
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* LiteralSurveillanceBug: A Wasp (or sometimes Mouse) in Bokele's party listened to Mokulaka plotting to kill Bokele and warned him.
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* StewedAlive: In some version Motumbu/Bolumbu is tasked with boiling Bokele/Mokele alive rather than poisoning him.
