1950sĪccording to one legend, Mami Wata was very beautiful black woman with a voluptuous figure. Sculpture of the African water deity Mami Wata. Mami Wata’s followers dance so intense, that they appear to be in almost like a trance-like state. Her followers use music to praise the goddess, using African guitars and other instruments, while dancing heavily. They have bells, Christian or Indian symbols, dolls, incense, and remnants of past sacrifices made to Mami Wata. The shrines devoted to Mami Wata are finely decorated in various colors. They wear regalia of a cloth snake wrapped around the waist. In Nigeria, her followers wear red and white clothing to represent Mami Wata’s dual nature. Mami Wata has many priests, priestesses, and mediums in Africa, America, and the Caribbean who worship her and praise her. The mirror represented the movement from the present to the future her followers would create their own reality imagining themselves in the world of Mami Wata. There is a lot of symbolism of the items associated with Mami Wata and her followers would perform various ceremonies in her honor.
She is a beautiful creature, shrouded in mystery, yet beware, for Mami Wata is a vengeful mermaid and not one to be messed with. Like most mermaids, Mami Wata can seduce, bewitch, and intrigue humans. She is deeply rooted in the ancient traditions and culture of the coastal Southeastern Nigerians.Īccording to Nigerian tradition, Mami Wata is a fertility goddess and is associated with sex and seduction. Her name is Mami Wata or Mamba Muntu in Swahili.
June 25th is the feast day of a powerful water goddess in African mythology. Poster of Mami Wata printed in the 1880’s by the Adolf Friedlander Company in Hamburg
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