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| ethnic_group = [[Sotho-Tswana peoples]] <br/>[[Basotho]], [[Batswana]], [[Bapedi]]
| image = [[File:Iziko Lydenburg Heads 2.JPG|Iziko Lydenburg Heads 2|250px]]
| caption = The [[Lydenburg Heads]] used in the rituals of the Bantu-speaking people, in possible connection to Modimo
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'''Modimo''' (also spelt as '''Molimo''' in [[Sesotho orthography|Lesotho Sesotho]], and known as '''Mudzimu''' or '''Raluvhimba''' in [[Venda language|Tshivenda]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stayt |first=Hugh A |title=The Bavenda |date=1931 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1931 |isbn=9780429942778 |publication-date=2018 |pages=230-236}}</ref> and '''uMlimo''' or '''Zimu''' in [[Southern Ndebele language|Southern]] and [[Northern Ndebele language|Northern Ndebele]]) is a [[Creator deity|creator god]], [[supreme deity]] and [[sky deity]] in the [[Traditional African religion|traditional religion]] of the [[Sotho-Tswana peoples|Sotho-Tswana people]]. Modimo and all its derivatives ultimately stem from the [[Proto-Bantu language|proto-Sotho-Tswana]] prefix ''*mo-'' which indicates personhood + ''*-dzimu'' "above, in the sky" <ref>{{Cite book |last=Casalis |first=Eugene |title=The Basutos |date=1861 |publisher=[[Books on Demand]] |year=1861 |isbn=9783375040543 |pages=248}}</ref> and so Modimo can be translated to mean "the high one" or "the sky-deity" or "the one above" or "the Supreme Deity" or merely "the high god" in English. Modimo is the equivalent of the Xhosa Supreme Deity [[Qamata]] and the Zulu Supreme Deity [[Umvelinqangi|uMvelinqangi]] and the Shona Supreme Deity [[Mwari]] .<ref>{{cite web |first1=Bruce |last1=Bennett |title=The contested history of Modimo |date=January 2022|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346943485 |language=English}}</ref>
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