The Adam story – Bantu Creation Stories
Basonge myth (Bantu, Central African, Congo): Kolombo and followers dig a tunnel to escape from Mwile, emerging to safety on the surface, forming part of their survival and origin narrative.
Below is a deeper analysis of Sangoma visions from Southern Africa, specifically from the Zulu, Xhosa, and related Bantu-speaking communities, as they pertain to stories of lost civilizations that could be linked to Atlantis-like entities.
Unlike Plato’s bronze-clad Atlantis, this is subtle tech—sustainable, not industrial—reflecting Bantu reverence for nature.
Precolonial Cosmology: Sangoma visions predate Christian (16th century) and Islamic (19th century) influences in Southern Africa, rooted in Bantu animism—ancestors and nature as living forces.
Rooted in precolonial Bantu cosmology, these oral tales offer an evocative, if symbolic, parallel to Atlantis, accessed through trance and vision akin to Akashic insight.
“It is astonishing to discover thatancient Zulu culture and religion, including those of all other Bantu tribes, is directly linked to theSumerians,” noted Tellinger and Heine.
Great Zimbabwe: While not explicitly mentioned in the transcript, the reference to significant archaeological sites in Zimbabwe aligns with the known history of Great Zimbabwe, an ancient city built by the Bantu people.
It's African and Sumerian, both.24:56It was the Bantu, the children of Antu, who mined all this and recorded all this history.
The Bantu peoples form an ethnolinguistic group comprising around 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
There are several hundred Bantu languages.
The total number of Bantu language speakers is in the hundreds of millions, with roughly 350 million in the mid-2010s, accounting for about 30% of Africa’s population and roughly 5% of the global population.
The larger Bantu groups have populations of several million each.
Genetic studies have found that Damara are closely related to neighbouring Himba and Herero people, consistent with an origin from Bantu speakers who shifted to a different language and culture.
By about 400AD other, Bantu-speaking, peoples had arrived from north of the Limpopo River.