Mami Wata
The mother of waters — a radiant woman with a great serpent draped over her shoulders, mistress of wealth, healing and the deep.
Mami Wata is honored across West and Central Africa and the Americas: a radiant woman with a great serpent draped over her shoulders, mistress of wealth, healing and the deep — beautiful, dangerous, sovereign. The direct Atlantic cousin of the Galician moura at her spring: the same being wears different climates, and always the serpent is with her.
The SGE Reading
Gift stage as *sovereign feminine*: the woman is not rescued from the serpent; the woman is the serpent's coeval.
Canon Resonance
The saga's African counterpart to the moura and the meiga — three cultures naming the same being.
A Micro-Practice
The next time you are near water (a river, the sea, a running tap), pause. Salute silently: *I know who you are.*
Sources & Respect
Henry John Drewal, *Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits*.
Living tradition across dozens of nations. Do not homogenize.