Editing Solar deity (section)

=== Kongo ===
[[File:Kongo Cosmogram 3.png|thumb|The [[Kongo cosmogram|Kongo Cosmogram]]]]

In [[Kongo people|Kongo religion]], [[Nzambi a Mpungu|Nzambi Mpungu]] is the Sky Father and god of the Sun, while that his female counterpart, [[Nzambici]], is Sky Mother and the god of the Moon and Earth.<ref name="Asante-2009">{{cite book | last1=Asante | first1=Molefi Kete | last2=Mazama | first2=Ama | title=Encyclopedia of African Religion | publisher=SAGE | date=2009 | isbn=978-1-4129-3636-1 | pages = 120–124, 165–166, 361}}</ref> The Sun is very significant to [[Kongo people|Bakongo people]], who believe that the position of the sun marks the different seasons of a Kongo person's life as they transition between the four moments of life: conception (''musoni''), birth (''kala''), maturity (''tukula''), and death (''luvemba''). The [[Kongo cosmogram]], a sacred symbol in Bakongo culture, depicts these moments of the sun.<ref name="Asante-2009" /><ref>{{cite journal | last=Luyaluka | first=Kiatezua Lubanzadio | title=The Spiral as the Basic Semiotic of the Kongo Religion, the Bukongo | journal=Journal of Black Studies | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=48 | issue=1 | date=2016-11-21 | issn=0021-9347 | doi=10.1177/0021934716678984 | pages=91–112 | jstor = 26174215 | s2cid = 152037988| doi-access=free }}</ref>