Ninataka maneno kwa mizimu na dubwana (I need words for spirits and monsters)

[mzimwi]

I needs specific kiSwahili terms for certain monsters and spirits out of Bantu mythology. Often I have the word in one Bantu language, but can't find it in kiSwahili. Examples:

Ogre - a large, cannibalistic races of beings. If in my story, these guys are actually physically people, should they be mzimwi/wazimwi or mzimwi/mizimwi? or even kizimwi?

Spirits - it seems there are three classes of spirits, human, nature and alien (in chiShona, 'mashave'). Please check me on these:

mzimu/mizimu - ancestor
msomolezi/misomolezi - guardian spirit
ngozi, dzedzeta - angry or lost ghost
vinyamkela - what the Bible calls 'Legion', ancestors who have lost their names

Asante sana

 

[Colea911]

eti unatafsiri harry potter kwa kiswahili au? kazi noma unayo

 

[mzimwi]

(I can't say this in kiSwahili). I'm writing a setting for fantasy role playing games, like Dungeons and Dragons, based on Bantu mythology. In this world, four great cities of precolonial Africa were swallowed by a Khudumodumo/Kammapa/Swallowing Beast. Later a great hero killed the beast, but the people found themselves in a new world where magic works.

I'm trying to avoid the 'American Africa' thing where Egyptian, Yoruba and Zulu get all mixed together, and I'm also avoiding the 'Dark Continent'. In the world of Ubantu, the Empire of the Elephant is a continent spanning power similar to Europe in the 1500's, but they use magic instead of technology.

I'm doing to this to try to preserve a vanishing mythohistory. How many of you grew up with stories of evil Zimwi or cannibals with second mouths on the back of their heads? I promise, your grandparents did. Now kids in Mombasa know more about Middle Earth than their own mythology.