Ref: sf-2175
height: 31 CM
Product Description
Mamiwata Ewé fetish from Benin. Original piece over 50 years old.
African mythologies. Mamiwata, Mother of Waters
MamiWata comes from "Mother water", quickly transformed into "Mommy Water", then into "Mammy water", and finally into "MamiWata".
Mamiwata is the Mother of the waters, half-woman, half-fish, half-terrestrial, half-aquatic, goddess of worship vodun
in Togo and Benin, water spirit feared by the fishermen of Nigeria and Ghana, a man-eater who wanders in the African night in the guise of a ghost, patron saint of prostitutes in Kinshasa. Mamiwata
is a deity who is the object of as many cults as there are followers. Heroine of lake tales and urban legends, she covers as many symbols as cultures, and embodies as many virtues as hopes, as many curses as fears.
African art, African mask
african art african tribal art arte africana afrikanische kunst
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Mamiwata Ewé fetish from Benin. Original piece over 50 years old. MamiWata comes from "Mother water", quickly transformed into "Mommy Water", then into "Mammy water", and finally into "MamiWata". Mamiwata is the Mother of the waters, half-woman, half-fish, half-terrestrial, half-aquatic, goddess of worship vodun
in Togo and Benin, water spirit feared by the fishermen of Nigeria and Ghana, a man-eater who wanders in the African night in the guise of a ghost, patron saint of prostitutes in Kinshasa. Mamiwata
is a deity who is the object of as many cults as there are followers. Heroine of lake tales and urban legends, she covers as many symbols as cultures, and embodies as many virtues as hopes, as many curses as fears. african art african tribal art arte africana afrikanische kunst It