King Numwa was born of King Inyambo the 1st and Queen Maondo. King Numwa was born in a very mysterious way.
When Queen Maondo got pregnant, instead of giving birth to a human child; she instead gave birth to an egg. 🥚
Queen Maondo’s egg was taken to the river and left in the custody of a crocodile 🐊. So a crocodile nurtured this egg until into hatched a human child.
To those that may know crocodiles; they’re not very friendly animals as they eat even their own offerings when they’re hungry.
However, the crocodile didn’t eat the Prince Numwa at the time. Instead, it nurtured him like it’s own.
It fed him like it does it’s own offspring.
It taught him to swim and survive in the water.
As time went by; the king sent people to check the egg out; only to find a male human child playing with a crocodile.
It instantly clicked that it was the prince. They did what they had to do and retrieved the boy from the crocodile and back to the palace.
The king welcomed his son and he grew into a man who later became King Numwa after the death of his Father King Inyambo.
Lozi strongly believe King Numwa is the one who made the ZAMBEZI RIVER out of a small canal called Ikalombwa which has seized to exist now.
How did King Numwa make the Zambezi river?
King Numwa once went hunting and killed a waterbuck and started pulling it.
The ridge in which he pulled the waterbuck is exactly where the Zambezi river is passing today.
King Numwa never died; rather, he opened the ground and went underground to create his kingdom.
Legend has it, Numwa is still surviving in his underground Kingdom.