In honor of Valentine's Day, we're posting a particularly romantic dragon today.
Nyami Nyami, sometimes called Nyami Yamaninga prior to colonization, is a unique dragon from Zimbabwe. A god of the Zambezi River, he is a large serpent with the head of a fish who looks over the Ba Tonga people with his beloved wife.
Due to increased development, the Ba Tonga people have been forced to relocate, and Nyami has been separated from his wife by a dam built on the Zambezi River near the Kariba Gorge. However, the Ba Tonga insist that Nyami will one day destroy the dam to reunite with his wife, and restore them to their homeland.
In fact, many strange things have happened since the construction of the dam, and many say that Nyami is at work behind them.
If you’ve heard of Nyami, let us know in the comments section, and look for more dragons to come every week along with sneak peeks of the artwork we’ll include in our book, A Discourse on Dragons.
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