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Visual depiction of Mami Wata

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Mami Wata

West and Central African water deity


a half-human half-fish goddess of beauty, wealth, and danger, her mirror and comb on the river's surface at dusk

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
earth

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.