@ARTICLE{Podolecka_Agnieszka_UNkulunkulu:_2020, author={Podolecka, Agnieszka}, volume={vol. LXXIII}, number={No 1}, pages={108-118}, journal={Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={The Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Publishing House ELIPSA}, abstract={UNkulunkulu is a very important figure within Zulu pantheon but his nature is not really defined. Should he be considered God, a god or the first ancestor? The problem comes from Western (Christian) need to find and define a supreme deity within Zulu religious beliefs. In 2013, 2018 and 2019 I conducted thorough field-studies among South African sangomas and asked them about uNkulunkulu. This article aims to organise knowledge about uNkulunkulu and tries to place him within the deity stratum. Also, my research allows to show if searching for answers about uNkulunkulu is a Zulu problem or maybe just Western scholars’. Field studies that enabled writing this paper were sponsored by Polish National Science Centre, Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), project no.: 2017/25/N/HS1/02500.}, type={Article}, title={UNkulunkulu: God, a God or the First Ancestor? The Quest for a Supreme Deity in Zulu Religious Beliefs}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/117143/PDF/ROrient%2073%20z.%201-20%208PODOLECKA.pdf}, doi={10.24425/ro.2020.134048}, keywords={Zulu, uNkulunkulu, African religions, sangoma}, }