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Nammu
A Sumerian birth-goddess, personification of the primeval sea from which
human life emerged. Nammu is also known to Canada’s Haida Indians as the
whale upon whose back mankind first resided, until it sank beneath the waves
under savage attacks from the sky. Many drowned, but some floated to the Pacific-
coastal shores of British Columbia, where they became the Haidas’ ancestors. Both
versions reflect the story of Mu.
(See Mu)Nana Buluku
Described in Yoruba and Benin folk traditions as a royal personage belonging
to the “Sea Peoples” who conquered the West African kingdom of Aja around
1200 B.C. This is the same period when Egyptians on the other side of Africa were
fending off invasion by warriors who Pharaoh Ramses III identically described as
theHanebu, or “Sea Peoples” from the sunken realm of Neteru (Atlantis). Nana
Buluku similarly came from an Atlantic island overwhelmed by a natural catastrophe
with her husband, Wulbari. Thanks in large measure to her reputation as a skilled
physician, they were chosen as corulers to mitigate the worst effects of a famine
ravaging Aja. But its severity was so widespread, Wulbari resigned under pressure,
and discontented opposition, led by the “High Priest of the Sky,” Aido, plotted to
overthrow Nana Buluku. The conspiracy was discovered before it could succeed,
however, and Aido was banished with his accomplices.
The story of serious famine associated with Nana Buluku’s arrival in West
Africa once again underscores its relationship with the Sea Peoples, whose
appearance in the eastern Mediterranean was said to have coincided with wide-
spread famine resulting from the global cataclysm that destroyed Atlantis in the
Late Bronze Age.
(See Sea Peoples)Nanabush
Flood hero of Algonquian-speaking Indians in the Central Woodlands culture
area. After retrieving the corpse of his drowned brother, Nanabush led survivors
of the great flood that destroyed a former world. Among the treasures he saved
was the Medewiwin ceremony, which brought his dead brother back to life.
Nanabush perpetuated his world’s secrets in various Medewiwin societies of
initiates among the Cree, Fox, Menomoni, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Sauk,
who still preserve its arcane principles. He compares with the West African Nana
Buluku.
(See Nana Buluku, Wallum Olum)