She is the daughter of Mboze, the Great Mother. Bunzi appears as a multicolored serpent, and rewards those who worship her with an abundant harvest.[1] Mboze took her own son, Makanga, as a lover and gave birth to Bunzi. Upon seeing that Mboze had given birth to a serpent, Mboze's husband Kuitikuiti knew that she had been unfaithful to him, and killed her.