He is regularly depicted as a snake-like being or dragon-like creature with a snake's torso and the head of a fish.

[1] It can be found as pendants on jewelry, usually carved out of wood, stone or bone, occasionally ivory, silver or gold both as a fashion accessory and as a good luck charm similar to the wearing of a St Christopher medallion.

"The Tonga People lived in the Zambezi Valley for centuries in peaceful seclusion and with little contact with the outside world.

They were simple folk who built their houses in kraal along the banks of the great river and believed that their gods looked after them supplying them with water and food.

The Tonga's peace and solitude was shattered and they were told to leave their homes and move away from the river to avoid the flood that the dam would cause.

The name Kariba comes from the word Kariva or karinga, meaning trap, which refers to a rock jutting out from the gorge where the dam wall was to be built.

The worst floods ever known on the Zambezi washed away much of the partly built dam and the heavy equipment, killing many of the workers.

Some of those killed were white men whose bodies disappeared mysteriously, and after an extensive search failed to find them, Valley Tonga elders were asked to assist as their tribesmen knew the river better than anyone.