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[christinealcouffe]

Joyeux lundi à tous ! On reprend en douceur avec mon illustration de Mami Wata, pour le jeu Baron Voodoo :) #mamiwata #mamywata @yanndtl15 @yokaofficiel #yokabytsume #baronvoodoo #vaudou #Voodoo #j2s #boardgame #boardgamesofinstagram #boardgames #games #sirene #serpent #mermaid https://www.instagram.com/p/B52cMEYqLm4/?igshid=lhntftx4arxr

[chief-sai]

Happy Birthday Queen @erykahbadu !! The Love Of My Life .. 🙌🏽👊🏽✊🏽❤ #Queen#ErykahBadu#Baduizm#OneLove#ClassicShiit#Legend#MamyWata#LoveIt#TheBest#HipHop#Soul#Music#Peace

[soulakuarian]

From @artnewsafrica - Jean-Claude Moschetti, Parallel Worlds, Nov 03-Dec 03, 2016. @marianeibrahimgallery “Parallel Worlds” continues Moschetti’s immersion into traditional West African spiritual societies. Whereas in his first exhibition, “Magic On Earth”, Moschetti focused on masking and masquerade traditions connected to ancestor veneration traditions in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Benin, and Burkina Faso, his new series Le Deuxieme Monde, turns attention to Mamy Wata, a female water deity whose cult is alive and well throughout much of West Africa. Moschetti’s images explore Mamy Wata outside of her natural habitat, Tchakatou, an entity that exists solely to cause disharmony, and the female priestesses and practitioners who keep Benin’s Vodou tradition alive. This new series, shot in Benin, merges fiction and documentary works. It intends to make visible what the non-initiated cannot comprehend. Moschetti’s intentionally blurs the already barely lines that bound the physical and the spiritual realms. The use of ink on his photographs delimits those two spheres, and makes clear where one world ends and the other begins. The Fa sign painted on the photographs serves as a message for priests of the Vodou tradition about how Mamy Wata came to be on land and perhaps even provides clues about what she came to do. Alternatively, it may even be Mamy Wata’s message from the spiritual realm, a kind of sacred instruction for her priesthood and followers. Moschetti’s images provide an opportunity to examine Mamy Wata outside of her natural habitat. Still in mermaid form but on land she is immobile, only able to sit. The inclusion of female priestesses, initiated to Mamy Wata’s cult, suggests that in the physical realm Mamy Wata’s existent is dependent upon her priesthood. In the midst of Tchakatou, whose intention is to create disruption, Mamy Wata emulates a serene and calm act,. Will Tchakatou target Mamy Wata, or is the magnificence of her now earthly presence sufficient to ward him off? Photo: Mamy Wata #03, 2016 #jcmoschetti #mamywata #parallelworlds #africandeities #photography #mamiwata #Regrann