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The Kuba creation myth, Sheppard reports, “says that their first people, man and woman, were let down from the skies by a rope, from which they untied themselves and the rope was drawn up.”


Source:

Hochschild, Adam. “The Wood That Weeps.” King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 157. Print.


Further Reading:

Kuba Kingdom / KuBa / Bakuba / Bushongo (Wikipedia)

William Henry Sheppard (Wikipedia)

>The Kuba creation myth, Sheppard reports, “says that their first people, man and woman, were let down from the skies by a rope, from which they untied themselves and the rope was drawn up.” _________________ **Source:** Hochschild, Adam. “The Wood That Weeps.” *King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa*. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 157. Print. _________________ **Further Reading:** [Kuba Kingdom / KuBa / Bakuba / Bushongo (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuba_Kingdom) [William Henry Sheppard (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuba_Kingdom)

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