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Author: Mama Zogbé
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615179363
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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This first definitive work on the predomiance of this powerful African deity throughout the ancient world has quickly become a "cult" classic. The evolution of Mami Wata in establishing, shaping and expanding the spiritual and sacerdotal foundation of world religion, reveals also the lost but glorious past of African women's spirituality. Hailed as the new "bible" on the history of African women, this comprehensive well-researched body of work will benefit academics, students, and all who are seeking to fill the missing void in world religious and cultural history. Totaling over 800 pages, it is reccomended that both heavily illustrated (Volumes I & II) be purchased as a set.
Author: Mama Zogbé
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615179363
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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This first definitive work on the predomiance of this powerful African deity throughout the ancient world has quickly become a "cult" classic. The evolution of Mami Wata in establishing, shaping and expanding the spiritual and sacerdotal foundation of world religion, reveals also the lost but glorious past of African women's spirituality. Hailed as the new "bible" on the history of African women, this comprehensive well-researched body of work will benefit academics, students, and all who are seeking to fill the missing void in world religious and cultural history. Totaling over 800 pages, it is reccomended that both heavily illustrated (Volumes I & II) be purchased as a set.
Author: Vivian Hunter-Hindrew
Publisher: MWHS
ISBN: 9780971624535
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Volume II of the first definitive work on the evolution of this ancient African deity, Mami Wata, and their role in establishing, shaping and expanding the spiritual and sacerdotal foundation of world religion.
Author: Mama Zogbé
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780971624580
Category : Vodou
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: Henry John Drewal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974872995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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This book traces the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata and other African water divinities. Mami Wata, often portrayed with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish, is at once beautiful, jealous, generous, seductive, and potentially deadly. A water spirit widely known across Africa and the African diaspora, her origins are said to lie "overseas," although she has been thoroughly incorporated into local beliefs and practics. She can bring good fortune in the form of money, and her power increased between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, the era of growing international trade between Africa and the rest of the world. Her name, which may be translated as "Mother Water" or "Mistress Water," is pidgin English, a language developed to lubricate trade. Africans forcibly carried across the Atlantic as part of that "trade" brought with them their beliefs and practices honoring Mami Wata and other ancestral deities. Henry John Drewal is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other contributors include Marilyn Houlberg, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Amy L. Noell, John W. Nunley, and Jill Salmons.
Author: Mama Zogbé
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0971624569
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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"African women are the only women in the world whose ancient mothers were not born under the yoke of patriarchy. During ancient times, for the first 6,000 years, Africa was ruled by a powerful order of matriarchs. Considering the current status of African women around the world today, one can hardly be convinced that her matriarchal presence and the enormous influence she welded in the ancient world, had far exceeded the limited physical, cultural geographical and political designations of which Africa and her religions are confined today. During her reign, African religions had reached very high levels of theological and ritual development. And were the original spiritual home of the worlds first great oracles, prophetess and prophets. Under the rising tide of African patriarchy, the sacerdotal order of Sibyls were sold as slaves to build and work the powerful oracles they established in Ancient Greece, Rome, Turkey and Babylon. What is now currently the 'holy seat of the Vatican' in Italy, was originally the sacerdotal seat of these ancient black Sibyl Queen Mothers. Centuries before for Christ, they were known to heal the sick, restore dignity and strength to the weak, and restore sight to the blind. They were famous for curing lameness, epileptics, deaf mutes and lepers. They were said to 'cast out demons' and even to 'raise-up the dead' Their prophecies are the oldest and most authentic in the world. They were the basis for Greek and Roman tragedies and plays. More astonishing, their prophetic books were later collected by the Roman authorities, who needed a 'western theological' foundation in order to compete with the powerful levitical Jews. These Sibyl prophecies soon became the sole and undisputed precursor to the western, Christian Bible. As the first established, sacerdotal, African matriarchs, the Sibyls cultural and religious impact was arguably the most profound, on ancient civilization than modern history has ever revealed or care to admit. From Mesopotamia, to Libya, Mizarim (Kemet/Egypt), Ionia, Minoa, Peloponnese (Turkey) and Mycenae (Greece) and later Rome, the Sibyls were the primary, divine Vatican and absolute moral authority. The absence of African women's contribution in world history as major economic, political and spiritual players, as oppose to 'exceptions to the norm,' or mere appendages of 'great men', has been problematic and disturbing at best. For the first time ever, her real history is being unearthed, revealed and told. In its telling, many shocking revelations that remained hidden for more than 2000 years, will finally be know." -- Back cover
Author: Mama Zogbé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971624573
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 897
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Author: Mamaissii Vivian Hunter-Hindrew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971624528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Author: Mama Zogbé
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ISBN: 9780971624511
Category : Vodou
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Mama Zogbé
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ISBN: 9780971624597
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Author: Teresa N. Washington
Publisher: Oya's Tornado
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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