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Visual depiction of Mawu

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sun

Mawu

Fon moon mother and night deity


a gentle older goddess paired with the sun god Lisa, the cool night and wisdom her domain over West African creation

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

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.