Mami Wata: Yemanja Brazilian Festival (c) Henry J. Drewal

Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water spirit Mami Wata (Mother Water) is celebrated throughout much of Africa and the African Atlantic. Often portrayed as a mermaid, a snake charmer, or a combination of both, she and the "school" of related African water spirits all honor the essential, sacred nature of water. Experience the debut of this multimedia exhibition and explore the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata through a dynamic presentation of the rich array of arts surrounding her—sculpture, paintings, masks, posters, and more from west and central Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States. Let Mami Wata beguile you as she has done to peoples across the globe for centuries!

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[ChiChiBeDaGoddess]

@7olusegun

Loooooool!!! You ain't GOD, you stupid, white idol dick licking, Yoruba Devil. You think that bullshit is going to faze me?? I know how much you Yorubas love to curse though. You're the number 1 practisers of sorcery and black magic. Hahahaha!!! Your white jesus is not going to SAVE you. Suck it up.

[7olusegun]

@ChiChiBeDaGoddess You keep on sputing out ignoramous drivels and go chew the dicks of your demonic gods. The yemoja gods, whose hybrid you are a product of will roast your flesh and eat it continually on that day and you will reel in the fire and brimestone in the kingdom of your occult master, you confused washout. On that day it will be late for you to repent as you will perish in your sins and iniquities with many of your malefic like minded cronies. You Nephilim.

[ChiChiBeDaGoddess]

@7olusegun

Continue to ramble on. You're the ignorant one. Keep sucking on that white dick. It's as if you are confused by what I am saying. I'm talking about Jesus as a duplication, as a fake...a mere creation of the white man, and not of the REAL Bible, and you're turning it into some crap. The truth is, that the so called white man has you on lock. Keep worshipping his images and insulting the Creator by calling his Son, 'Jesus'.

[ChiChiBeDaGoddess]

@7olusegun

I don't see Jesus as a phantom being. I see him as a fake, and as a demon (a mere example of the Kike white man) who is hanging against the walls inside many Black households now. So don't give me that BULL. Jesus Christ and Yehoshua, are not the same people. Jesus Christ is just a white man's muse, a drawing of the incesteous and perverted Cesare B. and a pitiful duplication of a Black Man. Do not insult Yeh, by calling him Jesus.

[ChiChiBeDaGoddess]

@7olusegun

I don't worship false idols...and the only reason why you see them as demonic is because the little inner white man that exists inside of you, tells you that it's demonic. Just like the white man, carrying his perverted and white supremacist coated version of the Bible, told your ancestors that their religion and culture was demonic. You are Yoruba, right? You are aware of the fact that before Christianity was forced upon your ancestors, your ancestor worshipped something else too..

[7olusegun]

@andreoty2006 Whether or not I am shallow, thou knowest. Are you any deeper or wiser? Do you understand the deep dangerous implications these festivals will have on the heavily ignorant person(s) with their hearts in it? Lo and behold, these ancestral spirit entities worshipped are demonic entities hiding under the banner of 'spirits of dead humans' and are an abomination to God. The fact that these customs might be performed for millenia makes them right or correct before God? You decide.

[7olusegun]

@ChiChiBeDaGoddess Irrespective of how His Name is called (e.g. whether Jesus, Yeshua, Jesu etc, etc), it is the power in His Name that saves that matters. Jesus Christ was Jewish, The Son of God, of the tribe of Judah, born in Bethlehem Judah, Israel (as was recorded in the bible). Have you studied the love of Christ and Christ before branding Him a hooked-nose racist? Was it not the love of God that made God send His Son Jesus that the world via Him be saved? You ain't no longer ignorant.

[7olusegun]

@ChiChiBeDaGoddess ..(cont'd).. performed by the KKK (& co.) is biblical Christianity. The orthodox Christianity world wide (and especially that of the Roman Catholic Church) is camouflage of these demonic festivals superficially manifesting as 'christianity'. What has Jesus Christ got to do with racism of supremacy? Anyone not in Jesus is of satan. As simple as that. This is the truth and has nothing to do with prejudice. If you have someone heading for a pit, won't you tell him in advance?

[7olusegun]

@ChiChiBeDaGoddess Thou knowest whether the spirit entities (with their malefic looking idol gods) are of whom you and many others worship is holy or good or whether Jesus Christ is a hooked nosed KKK founder. Which of these African pagan festivals could you convince me (or anyone unbiasedly seeking the raw truth for that matter) of being good? You see Jesus Christ as a 'phantom being'. Do you have any evidence(s) of any evils done by Him? Your ignorance is much if you think the christianity....

[7olusegun]

@catfish36 The birth place of humanity is not Africa but the middle East of Iraq, Asia.