"Each person has his own god. The god is created with the baby. Say the wife has a baby, the baby's god is created inside the womb. The god takes care of the baby. After the baby is born, the god comes out and grows in size with the baby. The god looks like the person, but you can't touch the god because the hand would go right through the god. When someone is wounded, the god is also wounded." From Africa´s undiscovered myths found on
http://www.jmiglavs.com/myth/index.htm