MamiWata comes from “Mother water”, quickly transformed into “Mommy Water”, then “Mammy water”, and finally into “MamiWata”.
Mamiwata is the Mother of waters, half-woman half-fish, half-terrestrial half-aquatic, goddess of worship vodun in Togo and Benin, the spirit of the water fears by the fishermen of Nigeria and Ghana, a man-eating man 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 followers. Heroine of lacustrine stories and urban legends, she covers as many symbols as cultures, and embodies as many virtues as hopes, as many evil spells as fears.
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