Kalumba, also known as Sendwe Mwlaba, is the supreme god figure worshipped by the Luba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From that day on, the first man and woman returned with a dog named Kalala Kabwa, birds, a fire-making stone, iron, the power to reproduce for animals, plants, and people, and became the parents of humanity.
[1][2] In the origin-of-death myth, Kalumba tried to stop the personification of Death from encountering humans by placing a dog and a goat to guard the paths leading to Earth.
The guards were supposed only to let the personification of Life pass so that humans could live forever, but both failed.
The dog, on the first watch, fell asleep and let Death in, while the goat in charge the next day stopped Life instead.