Mami Wata
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. Mami Wata spirits are usually female but are sometimes male.
Mami Wata (Mama Water) | |
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African sailors recognized the iconography of the water deity Mami Wata in this 1880s chromolithograph poster of the performer Maladamatjaute by the Adolph Friedlander Company in Hamburg and carried it worldwide, giving rise to the common image of the deity in Africa and in the African diaspora. | |
| Venerated in | West African Vodun, Haitian Vodou, Folk Catholicism, Odinani, Yoruba religion, Louisiana Voodoo |
| Feast | June 25 |
| Attributes | Snakes, pearls, gold, diamonds |
| Patronage | Water, the sea, mermaids, the moon, markets, divination, healing, luck, money, music |
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