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A Simbi (also Cymbee, Sim'bi, pl. Bisimbi) is a Central African water and nature spirit in traditional Kongo religion, as well as in African diaspora spiritual traditions, such as Hoodoo in the southern United States and Palo in Cuba. Simbi have been historically identified as water people, or mermaids, pottery, snakes, gourds, and fire.
Simbi Phiri is a Malawian businessman and philanthropist based in South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the founder and CEO of Khato Civils Ltd, a company that operates in Malawi , South Africa and Botswana .
[2] To guide man, Nzambici and Nzambi Mpungu created nature spirits—simbi, nkisi, nkita, and kilundu—and separated the physical world, called Nseke, from the spiritual world, called Mpémba, with a boundary of water, called the kalûnga line.
A simbi (pl. bisimbi) is a water spirit that is believed to inhabit bodies of water and rocks, having the ability to guide bakulu, or the ancestors, along the Kalûnga line to the spiritual world after death. They are also present during the baptisms of African American Christians, according to Hoodoo tradition. [10] [11]
Simbi spirits are believed to transport Kongo people between the two worlds at birth and death. Then the process repeats when a person is reborn. Then the process repeats when a person is reborn. Together, Kalûnga and the mbûngi circle form the Kongo cosmogram , also called the Yowa or Dikenga Cross.
Lake Simbi is a small volcanic crater soda lake in Kenya. The lake is located outside Kendu Bay and close to the shore of Lake Victoria. The lake and the shore together form the Lake Simbi National Sanctuary which is run by the Kenya Wildlife Service. [1] Flamingos and other birds are coming to the Lake Simbi National Sanctuary.
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Nature is essential to Kongo spirituality. While simbi (pl. bisimbi) nature spirits later became more associated with water, or kalûnga, they were also known to dwell in the forest, or mfinda (finda in Hoodoo). The Kingdom of Kongo used the term chibila, which referred to sacred groves, where they would venerate these forest spirits.