TYPE: Rain goddess
ORIGIN: African - Lovedu (South Africa)
INFORMATION: She is said to reside in the northern Drakensberg Mountains and sends both destructive tempests and gentle generative rain. In past times she was propitiated with sacrifices of cattle and occasionally young girls. She is represented by a lineage of mortal queens on whose fabulous reputation the author Rider Haggard based the novel She. Also Modjadji.