Mawu's subjects are imagination, Universal Law, enthusiasm, plenitude, birth, and motivation. Her images are earth and the moon. Mawu lands on an elephant's back, hopeful with spring's inventive vitality. Hers is a savvy enthusiasm and a convenient birth, being ruled by normal laws and universal order. In Africa, She is a lunar-adjusted creatrix who made individuals from clay. As a mother figure, Mawu motivates the universe's wealth and each visionary creative ability.
Ceremonies for Mawu celebrate in Her nurturing vitality, frequently through lovemaking. In Africa, individuals take this seed age actually and sow the fields, realizing that Mawu will make the land rich. So get yourself a seedling today and carry it into the house to welcome Mawu and Her imaginative forces. Name the sprout after one of Mawu's ascribes that you need to develop. Each time you water or tend the plant, repeat its name and acknowledge Mawu's growing vitality into your soul.
On the other hand, get some non-solidifying mud and start molding an image of what you require. Give yourself to investing energy in this more than twenty-eight days (a lunar cycle), until the point when it's complete. Each time you work, say:
Mother Mawu, make me whole
Help me obtain my sacred goal.’
When this is done, you should see the principal indications of appearance."
In Dahomey folklore, Mawu, (articulated MAH-woo) and once in a while then again spelled Mahu, is a West African Mother Earth maker Goddess related with both the sun and moon. She is the Goddess of the night, of happiness, and of parenthood and the leader of the world's astuteness and learning. She is the person who conveys the cool evenings to the hot African world. Once in a while She is viewed as a moon Goddess, the twin sister-spouse of the sun god Lisa (then again spelled Liza), yet now and then "She" is viewed as one male/female or bisexual god, Mawu-Lisa. Mahu and Lisa are the offspring of Nana Buluku, and are the guardians of Xevioso
Subsequent to making the earth and all life and everything else on it, She ended up noticeably worried that it may be too substantial, so She asked the antiquated serpent, Aido Hwedo, to twist up underneath the earth and push it up in the sky. When She asked Awe, a monkey She had likewise made, to assist and make some more creatures out of earth, he bragged to alternate creatures and tested Mawu. Gbadu, the principal lady Mawu had made, saw all the turmoil on earth and disclosed to her youngsters to go out among the general population and advise them that no one but Mawu can give Sekpoli – the breath of life. Gbadu taught her little girl, Minona, to go out among the general population and show them about the utilization of palm bits as signs from Mawu. Whenever Awe, the haughty monkey scaled to the sky to attempt to indicate Mawu that he also could give life, he flopped wretchedly. Mawu made him a bowl of porridge with the seed of death in it and advised him that no one but She could give life and that She could likewise take it away.
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Thank you!
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Great information. I am familiar with Greek, Roman, Celtic Goddesses but not so familiar with African ones. Now I know just a little more!
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Interesting story of other goddesses. Thank you @deadgrlsuppastar!
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Thank you @teamsouthafrica!
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Creatrix - love it, thanks for sharing!
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