Tag: water
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Water-spirit Mami wata
It is believed that all of ancient Africa possessed a multitude of water-spirit traditions before the first contact with Europeans.[2] Mami Wata (also Mamba Muntu, Water Mother, La Sirene) also goes by the names Mama Glo, Mama de Agua and Watramama, is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa and in the Afro-American diaspora. This image—an enticing woman with long, black hair and…